Eulogy Of Adam Poem by Raphael Sackey

Great father, ... All-father
First of us all
Today, we lay you to rest
Today we sing our best
The praises we'll never forget
The praises of the one we will miss most

Say what they may about you
About the sin you passed on to us
But their true heart shall always love you
For without you, they would not be
So we weep at your solemn presence
As you leave us to join mother beloved.

O first default king on earth
We still always thought you would never leave us
Even though the lord had decreed
For we were never ready to accept that truth
That if you, the one (personally) handcrafted by our Lord should die
Then we...we...who were not...had no chance against such fate

And so there shall never be a sadder day than this
When all men in this earth have gathered
All to mourn their inevitable demise
And all because you bit into one piece of one fruit
Nine hundred and thirty years ago
And undid the immortal fate of the one handmade by the divine

The daughters of men share beds with the angels
In a desperate bid to rectify our terrible fate
While I, your Enoch, first priest among men
Devote all my life's service to the Lord in a bid to do the same
But as you leave us in this sadness, know that it shan't remain so
For one will definitely be born to us one day, ...sent by Him to rectify our fate.

You lived so long
And saw a plethora of generations begat from you
You saw them at their best and you saw them at their worst
And what glory you once saw, we can never dream of seeing again
Yes, we thought you would never lose the breath from on high
But alas, we thought wrong