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Tangled tubes connected to a body laying still, breathing shallow, not awake Beneath closed eyelids, rapid re-enactments of so many unfinished things flashing by in meteor shower dreams Unsaid words that are now whispered to shadowy figures buried in the past The dark abyss with mouth agape, ready to welcome this soul aboard a grave ship sailing half-mast Into the dim fluorescent room enters an unwelcome visitor, dressed like a devout mortician in priest clothes With weary eyes, he softly says to the parents, last rites should be given when a soul is in death throes One indignant voice and two pair of angry eyes, unleashes a torrent of ridicule that catches the grim reaper by surprise Words spoken in hot fury and pure faith, knocks the unbidden false emissary back The parents with one angry voice tell him: We put our trust in God not man, on His mercy we will await Then with prayers and fasting, purifying their hearts in the well of hope everlasting --- within a week, a mighty miracle is seen Their son is brought back from the edge of death, and they tell the man who read last rites, he can save his breath
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