Death is a welcome balm
embalms life to eternal calm
not a foe but a lover true
comes for the final union
when the body tired of life
needs the lover’s arm: he comes.
As a universal lover, crowns lives,
champions life with a celebration and
marks the end for a new beginning.
Welcome him and embrace him.
Death makes life so livable,
compels to live with the intensity
of a yogi’s stance, makes life
a private tryst with destiny.
Arrives like the last guest
at a wedding dinner, he brings the
last gifts, name, fame and identity
for having lived life with a vision:
greet him: go with him like a bride
he will beautify your return after
a noon-nap to participate in
life’s eternal drama of rising
and falling curtains, repainted
to appear in another role.
Sabita Sahu
grt
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