I wonder
How it will be
On the day I die –
Will I hear that music?

This whole journey
What has it been worth
If I don’t hear that music?

If tomorrow
Will unteach me how to hear that music
Then take me today, dear Lord…

If today I am still deaf
To that music
Then guide me to the source
Of that guitar, and teach me how to grasp
Thine song, Lord, before my day
Is come.

As empty as life is
Even emptier is death
Without music.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije