Devotional Poetry

Death's Memorial Service

Death's Memorial Service

In the last days--
Before God and all His angels;
Before a new heaven and a new Earth--
A new race,
A new humanity
Came to bury death;
Came to inter the Grim Reaper
In a gold sarcophagus
In the heart of a granite sepulcher.

Satan and his angels came
To mourn their concubine;
To mourn their paramour.

God's and His messengers came
to eulogize death--
Christ proclaimed:
         "There shall be no more death!"1--
To rejoice in the reality of life--
Bah'u'llah announced:
         "I have made death a messenger of joy to thee!"2

Sing "“O Thou Glory of Glories!”
Sing "Hallelujah!"
Sing “God the All-Glorious!”
Because death will take your physical body,
Not your soul.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

I wrote this poem in 156 B.E. It was inspired by a quote from Baha'u'llah.

Footnotes
1  Revelation 21:4
2  The Hidden Words, Part One: From the Arabic, Number 32.