‘’If I Live My Life According To Their Pace, What’s My Prize In Life’s Meaningless Race?” -Tosyn Bucknor’s Death prediction Poem Surfaces Online
Few days after her sudden demise, an untitled poem written by popular media girl, Tosyn Bucknor-Boyer had surfaced online.
In the poem, much loved Tosyn had asked that people should not cry for her, but rather, they should cry for themselves; asking that what would have been her prize in life’s meaningless race if she had lived according to people’s pace?
She concluded her untitled poem with, “Here lies she who lived short but well. No regrets for her, but all her story tell.”
Read the full poem below:
UNTITLED
Tosyn Bucknor
“I look to the future and see me cease,
I feel no fear, my face won’t even crease
My steps on this earth, a testament to life,
Leaving this place filled with strife
Don’t cry for me, shed tears for yourself.
For each date you acquire gives you a little less.”
“Now I Know why I live the way I do
And why my mistakes, no second look
If I live my life according to their pace,
What’s my prize in life’s meaningless race?
Too many odds stacked against this fierce soul
So each hour, all I do is attain my goals”
“Spent a lot of days searching for purpose
Then I put my thoughts into poetry and prose
This is why I was put in this world
Be a voice, Put emotions in words
For every tear I shed and times my eye smiled,
Someone will have known every option I tried.”
“This cowardly heart felt fear not death
Prize I’ve earned since my birth
My vow to leave a lasting voice after I was
Find a loyal number to keep fighting my cause
Here lies she who lived short but well
No regrets for her, but all her story tell.”
Meanwhile, fresh revelations are surfacing about her sad death which resulted from sickle cell complications as confirmed by her only sister, Funke Bucknor-Obruthe.
Tosyn was reported to have succumbed to the disease she was born with and which she was known to had often publicly and candidly spoken about its many struggles; after experiencing the most challenging last three weeks of her life.
NET quoted a colleague of the deceased to have lamented that: “It is a difficult time for every one of us at Inspiration FM because we did not see it coming. The last time she was here was three weeks ago. She had been excused from work because she had another crisis but we thought she would pull through as she usually did, but we did not know that was the last time we would see her.”