Garth Rakumakoe

Somehow

Somehow I know

life never dies

 

It can never not be life

It can never not live

It never partakes in the hymns

we sing lamenting death

as we watch coffins sink

Somehow I know

what we call death is but a baton

in a race of life’s own morphosis

and longing for itself,

well on its never ending journey

into forever, free

and never entombed

 

With the triumphant surety

of the daisies that bloom

from the bed of a grave

somehow, I just know