{"id":4780,"date":"2022-03-21T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T07:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2022-03-21T07:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T07:53:50","slug":"if-i-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/if-i-die-young\/","title":{"rendered":"IF I DIE YOUNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abdul Shaban<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<em>abdoolmtyro@gmail.com]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Floating at the river<\/p>\n<p>Thousand poems of a believer<\/p>\n<p>Cigarettes burns the liver<\/p>\n<p>Held by demons none to deliver<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here comes my lover<\/p>\n<p>Who blows up my cover<\/p>\n<p>White, red flowers of clover<\/p>\n<p>They are my favourite flowers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lie them on the grave<\/p>\n<p>Pour your tears of grief<\/p>\n<p>Tell my love I was brave<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes whisper to my grave&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I did not finish my race<\/p>\n<p>Too young to lose my face<\/p>\n<p>Ooh please grant me this grace<\/p>\n<p>Visit me forever in here my place<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take my poems to archives<\/p>\n<p>Let them change millions lives<\/p>\n<p>Let them be your daily chives<\/p>\n<p>Do it to remember my lasting vibes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t come to my funeral<\/p>\n<p>Let it be for the world in general<\/p>\n<p>That I wasn&#8217;t your all in all<\/p>\n<p>Put my picture at the cathedral<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my picture and post<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still young to be lost<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still young to die young<\/p>\n<p>But if I die young&#8230;keep this love<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still young<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abdul Shaban [abdoolmtyro@gmail.com] &nbsp; Floating at the river Thousand poems of a believer Cigarettes burns the liver Held by demons none to deliver &nbsp; Here comes my lover Who blows up my cover White, red flowers of clover They are my favourite flowers &nbsp; Lie them on the grave Pour your tears of grief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}