It grieves me and I keep questioning
It is above me and I am curious
Where will I be?
When my eyes closed for the last time
When I knew no pains no more
When life and its laws are things of yesterday
When my world come to an end.

When Beauty tease me no more
When life's tricks has no effects on me
When I say good bye to life and its golden wood lies
When I want life surprises and its decay steel chairs no more
When my soul know not what is done to body
When I need no clothes but a pair
When I need no house,no room but a space.

Where will my eyes be opened to when the last pains are over
After the Agent Death has done his mischief again
When the businesses of the world concern me not again
When what is inevitable stopped me from my career
What will I see?
It is above me,above my knowledge,above my craft,my art and guesses
Where will I find myself,I wonder
What will I be doing,I know not

Is it underworld as myth say?
A paradise or hell as I learnt?
A narrow tunnel as they say?
Or,a beautiful white house I know not
Ha! Will I just hang up there in the sky?
Or my soul be a wanderer on the facve of the earth
I know not,I know not,but I wish I know.

Where will I be? What will I be doing?
How will I be treated?
Where will I be,can I make it preparation?
How will I be treated?
Will I be another person with this soul?
This life and its things will be forgotten and I will start afresh?
Even those with longer years can't satisfy my curiousity
It grieves me.

I would have known
I swear I would have known if those that have gone come back
That place maybe another battlefield
What will I find in life phase two?
Will the struggle continue?
Or,alas! It will be as peaceful as it is with the son of Mary?
That place know but I know not.

- Jimson Jaat Taofik