Saturday, 9 November 2013

A teacher called Death!

Birth defines our clan and caste
Some born rich and some born poor
Orphans, handicapped, under privileged
Royal, noble, your luck starts in the womb

Life can transform everything
Rich may fall and poor may fly
When fortunes disappear from one
Treasures may be found by another

Class and style manifest each one's power
Mansions and luxuries prove one's wealth
Others toil all day long in sun and rain
Nothing to save at the end of the day

Death comes at last with the final say
Either to earth or to fire goes the body
Either to hell or to Heaven moves the spirit
Whoever, whatever, everyone alike

You can control a birth, but never a death
Death does teach you the meaning of life
Death doesn’t discriminate, but decides
You can only surrender to its clutch

The colour and caste and creed and culture
Possessions and positions, powers held
Poverty and paucity, justice denied
The place and language and laws and mores

Presuming the life to be long and fine
Each one amass wealth in plenty
Death laughs when it carries you
Far from all the dreams you've dreamt

There’s no body not eaten by worms
There’s no ash whose colour isn't grey
Everything turns to the very same state
A message that no living human would heed

There’s no better hell or no worse hell
The souls dwell in any of these two
Death is a lesson of life and its worth
Life is a test to choose the best.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Your comments are welcome...

To Captain, with Gratitude

  (Dedicated to Dr Rajesh M Ramankutty, Cardiothoracic surgeon, Caritas Heart Institute, Kerala. My Papa got a new lease of  life through a ...