A brief face-off with Death

A brief face-off with Death

Those were the days I strived to sense the littlest pain in a big healthy body.

And now I spend every moment to sense the littlest life in a body full of pain.

I was fooled and never been told that death is as inevitable as life itself.

I know they all loved me and could have never talked to me about this seemingly harshest truth.

Now I suffer more for my unreadiness to death and somewhat lesser due to this unavoidable pain.

Sometimes I look at the trees bearing fruits, mostly young and few almost ripe.

If some don’t drop off all on its own, could it all withstand the blow of a passing wind.

Some need to fall off; those few that does, gives us the seedling of hope for a new grown tree.

My death for sure isn’t without a purpose; life must end with death to give way to a new life.

So vividly I have often seen; the circle starts at the same point where it all ends.

They came; sang, danced and did all to cheer and remind us of our smile we withheld for so long.

But they didn’t know; few of us couldn’t smile because of our diseased muscles and cheek that pains as we smile.

While some of us been in pain for so long, we have forgotten how we smiled the last time we had smiled.

But it gives more joy to see their solidarity; we could all look different but aren’t we all the same.

They go tearful to see us in pain and try out their best moves and voices just to give us a little smile.

How could I think I live only in this body when I have made my place in others’ thoughts and memories?

This body must not be all of me; for I too was unjust with it that I now remember.

I kept only what was useful, pampered my sharp nose and rosy lips but chopped off my hair and the nails.

But I could never reach to trim which is something deep within; more intense, name it love, joy or hope.

I gonna face you, My Death, shamelessly with a flamboyant smile; enough of it; you deluded me for long enough.



Inspired from: Karunashraya Hospice visit on 5-Sep-2018