Ultimate Good Night To My Mother (Elegy) Poem by Babatunde Aremu

We casually say good night
Oblivious of the import of those words
Our good night is laced with hope
Of rising up another morning
But no one knows
Who will see the next good morning
No diviner can decipher
When the ultimate good night will be saluted
But there must come that ultimate salutation
When the -greetee' respond no more
With dirge, tears, anguish, sighning and pain
We sorrowfully bid the lifeless body
A crying ultimate good night
Nothing else to say than bye
So, mama this is the moment
Of your ultimate good night
Sleep on mama with the celestials
Till bell of eternity is rung
Good night mama! Good night mum! !
Adieu.