A LOOK AT LIFE-24

A LOOK AT LIFE-24
BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

A look at life is incomplete
Without a look at death
A peep into its mystery
Its science
Language and chemistry

No doubt
Life is beautiful
But death is still more beautiful
More enchanting more bewitching
For it makes life full and
Gives once more a chance
To look at life and go ahead
In the path of eternity

If life is a feast
Death is sheer poetry
An artist's dream
Who makes an art of life
If life is a sojourn
Death is a station
Where one gets down
Look at himself and
Prepares for the journey
Anew and afresh
To have a go at the destination
Ultimate and inevitable

The beauty of life
Lies in a beautiful death
Which puts an end
To those toiling days
Agonising nights
The predicaments and contradictions
The unfulfilled desires
The negative emotions
Acquisitive instincts
Unrealised dreams and broken hearts
Which hunt one all along
And death makes the beast of burden
A man once again

But
One has to prepare for it
The way one plans and prepares
To live a life
The art of dyeing is more difficult
Than the craft of living
Living requires involvement
Engrossment and a deep sense of attachment
While dyeing needs nothing
Only one has to look back
And analyse the life
He has lived
The relationship
He shared over the years
One has to dive deep into life
To understand
The futility and fragility
Of human relationship
And its obvious limitations
Bound by
Time space and causation

A look into life
Unbiased and unprejudiced
Will show the way
And put an end to all cravings
And will prepare the mind and body
To embrace the beauty of life
With ease
And a smile on lips

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