PRAYER TO DEATH

Limbs are yet to grow

Am just in the womb,

Eyes are, but without brow

and heart is yet to pump.

O Death, You must be having other things to occupy.

Am such a small kid

Just learning to walk,

Have to express myself

Am trying to talk.

O Death, come later,i won’t defy.

My friends are few

Few more have to be made,

Many books to be read

Many Games are to be played.

O Death, Hold on, not the time for me to reply.

Have fallen in love

With beautiful wife,

Heart is singing and

song has become life.

O Death, give me more time & I will comply.

Children are to be taken care of

Elders are to be respected,

The morals in society

Erosing, needs to be protected,

O Death, its not the time to tell the life a good bye.

Though money I have made

But no time left to spend,

Erred many times in life

Have to discover faults, ways to mend.

O Death, time is still not ripe, please do not spy.

 

Yes my hairs have fallen

And I have grown old,

But to me still Life is a mystry

Which I have to unfold.

O Death, come next time, I won’t deny.

 

The more I desire, the more I pray

Lust turns hunter and I its prey,

Still unfulfilled, Still unsatisfied

Longing for life, all that I can say.

O Death, the truth is that, I do not want to die, I never want to die.

                                                  Ajay Amitabh Suman