Like Tosyn Bucknor like Dagrin

Following a poem written by the late On-Air Personality, Oluwatosin ‘Tosyn’ Bucknor, some people have said she predicted her death.

In the poem, Tosyn talked about leaving this world and urged people not to cry for her, suggesting she had a premonition of her death.

The poem reads:

“I look into the future and see me cease

I feel no fear, my face won’t even cease

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

Any why my mistakes, no second look

If I live my life according to their pace

What’s my price in life’s meaningless race?

Too much 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”.

The poem has triggered controversy on social media, even leading some fans to reminisce on the death of indigenous rapper, Dagrin who died shortly after he released a song titled, ‘If I die.”

Tosyn who celebrated her 37th birthday on August 15 was reportedly found dead by her husband, Aurelien Boyer, on Monday night. Her sister, Olufunke Bucknor, however, revealed that her sister died due to complications from sickle cell.

The late Dagrin stated his disgust for pity from people with  his chorus reading:  “If I die, if I die make you no cry for me, E jen simi, ejo kejen mi.”

“It will be unfair to misconstrue Dagrin’s creativity for diabolism as he is not the first artiste who did songs about the foreshadowing of one’s death,” said a music enthusiast.

“Foreshadowing, is just a literary technique which involves the use of indicative lines to set the stage for an event to unfold-Dagrin’s acclaimed mentor, 2pac Shakur had done something of this nature with songs like If I die tonight; I wonder if Heaven goota a Ghetto.”

In an interview, when asked what she did when she heard Michael Jackson died, she replied, “My sister and I saw it on the news. I cried a lot.”