From Greatness Too Is Meant for You, an unpublished 2014 manuscript by Adetimilehin Inioluwa Victor (Vic’Adex). Lightly edited for grammar while preserving the original voice.
Death against me shall have bad luck
Death I’ll defy, Hades I’ll mock.
*Iku bring out and strike your gong
One you have never before rung
Real men only give up the ghost
To live in deeds, from coast to coast
They do not die, they’re living on
Above our hearts, a valiant sun
My grave shall be in living hearts
Throwing goodwill poetic darts
Good deeds and love, a guiding light
Inspiring whispers in their plight
Giving life from behind our graves
Helping earth get the good it craves
Lighting embers from where we lay,
Of dreams and purpose every day
A hidden mount like Olympus
Shall take us up and wager us
We’re merely men who cheated death
We seek not godship over earth
*IKU – DEATH
Editor’s note: First drafted in the early Vic’Adex voice and preserved here as part of the Words on Rampage archive.