Happy End Of Life Poem by St Antoine de la Vuadi

To Mvumbi (1920 – 2011)


Here is time that you leave me
You, my private and particular hero
Your face is dancing in my mind
As a symbol of Zaire that you have loved.

It is impossible for me
To do that eternal way with you
But my heart do not conceive yet
How the death has taken you.

So wise as you ware
I know that you have felt it
And I remember every word
That you pronounced in our last meeting.

You were especially young
Young, even with your many more years
I will never forget what you did for me
Happy End of Life to you!