One By One Poem by Ojok Isaac

One by one we were born
One by one we shall be gone
The winds of sorrow drift all night
Carrying some, leaving us in freight

We were umpteen, a jumbo congregation
And death picked one in a silent locomotion
We mourn and grieved, as tears a river in our face
Recalling the credo... we'll one day meet over the space
Makes our grieved hearts relieved

The congregation has been tattered
We were numerous, now we're scattered
I peek hither and thither, all I see is me
The winds of sorrow...soon I'll breathe
None shall stay, now or then I'll go
To meet those who went before