Death never favours
Death does not discriminate between
Saints and sinners
losers and winners
Princes and paupers
followers or leaders
Dependents or breadwinners
The fatter or thinner
Those who over ate of life's banquet
and those who austerely skipped its dinner.
Or the healed and the healers
the kinder or the meaner
The angels of death
acting as finders keepers
Today to lie in shrouds and coffins
yesterday's pall bearers
But many sigh with relief
when it kills the killers
It's up to us to part from the world
as loved good doers.
Ah, death may knock
at anybody's lock.
Death is indiscriminate
yet curse it not for it's a mere transition
to another new more perfect world
We didn't enjoy coming into this world either
judging from all that bawling we did as newborns.
For when we're born we cry
but our folks happily ,cheerily rejoice
but we're silent when we die
when our folks weep in mournful voice.
As human bones upon death gather dust
and are merged and lost in earthly crust
The souls fly to heaven coz they must.
All must die , all must eventually expire
From this life all must one day retire.
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Author:
S.zaynab.M.V.Kamoonpury (Pseudonym) (
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Indeed. Doesn't matter what you do in life, in the end you die anyway. Well said, and to the point. Very much agreed.
Thanx soo much for your comment, u summed it up nicely. Cheers.
I love your thoughts and clarity of this poem.... these lines are so true and people forget that it wasn't much fun showing up: "We didn't enjoy coming into this world either
judging from all that bawling we did as newborns." Life can be hard - and maybe death will be much easier!
Yes hopefully poetess. Warmest thanx for your thoughts on this, I liked how u added to the poem.
Death in this human body is expected but I know that the Spirit that runs through my life will digital on to eternity.
Yes indeed death is not the end, I agree with u wholeheartedly, u put it smartly. Thanx for your comment.
A fine write zaynab. Yet death in Biblical terms is seen as an enemy.
Thanx muchly for your comment. I would like to know why the bible calls death an enemy?
Thanks Zaynab. I will try to explain briefly. When God created Adam and Eve, it seems His original intention was for them to live for ever. But they disobeyed Him and sinned by eating fruit of the forbidden tree (apple or whatever it was). For that, they had to die physically (though not immediately then). Though there is salvation through Jesus, for our forgiveness and eternal life. Each person, being descended from Adam and Eve, dies physically at some point, as we all inherit Adam and Eve's sinful nature, being all descended from them in the human race. So death is as an enemy, as God originally intended that humans have life, and to live for ever physically too, I suppose.
Oh yes your explanation makes me realise that's exactly our religious view in a way too for life's toil and death is the penance for our sins that keep us from heaven but God willing upon forgiveness we will reach it eventually. Best wishes.
I wouldn't call it penance though, as we can accept God's forgiveness through Jesus.
Yeah, I think I'm not perfect in English, I think forgiveness is the word.
Yes, but 'penance' is trying to work to earn forgiveness really, in the sense that I understand it.
Death of the flesh, energy flows on! Enjoyed the piece!
Wow what a bright comment, indeed. Thanx for your views.
A very nice poem. I've heard it said that the only things guaranteed are death and taxes.
Oh yes, I like that quote, true to life, thanx so much for that. Cheers.
In Christian eschatology the four last things are: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. Thank you for a fine write and one which calls each reader to ponder, once again, his or her own understanding of this inevitable reality.
Thanx soo much for your views and thoughts on this. U added to it nicely. Best wishes l
Superb!
Thanx much brother.
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