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Death's Indiscriminate

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 almost 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 upto us to part from the world as loved good doers Ah death may just 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 When we're born we cry but our folks happily rejoice but we don't when we die when our folks weep in mourning voice. As human bones upon death gather dust and are merged and lost in the earth's crust The souls fly to heaven coz they must.

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Date: 5/20/2021 2:05:00 PM
I think you entered this in my contest by mistake, maybe you meant to enter it in another contest, please remove it now
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Date: 2/18/2015 4:16:00 PM
Another great write! I have always said we morn for our loss more then we morn for the one who is lost and passed on.
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Date: 1/11/2014 11:13:00 PM
My own poem is an echo of yours. Well done. ...Oh death why are you painted so black you are white, a relief from hoary age and pain wracked days. you are life. The ego maligns you, calls you down. You are a door another change a movement on, not black. Not black as twisted priests would have. Not dark , not sin, not emptiness. You are the next stage, the new birthday show me, guide me, take me when my time comes but not before, let me have this to the end Let me love all of this as I love thee.
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S.Zaynab Kamoonpuri
Date: 1/13/2014 1:49:00 AM
Thanx paddi for a great review dat was soo nice to read, so unique n poetic.
Date: 12/17/2013 11:38:00 AM
Death, the final frontier. The reason for living, the reason for some not living. You have said it well my friend. Allan
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Date: 12/8/2013 12:38:00 AM
Excellent. Well penned. Enjoyed reading it. Tfs
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Date: 12/7/2013 8:42:00 AM
So true in so many ways nicely penned.
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Date: 12/6/2013 8:01:00 PM
Nice concept of death. If only we could just stop and think for a while...everyone must die some people still live in this wonderful world of illusion. My motto is to treat everyone with love and forgive when we can. Forgive our enemies and those that use and mistreat us. That's the least we can do before we die. Thank you fro this beautiful reminder
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Date: 12/5/2013 6:58:00 PM
Very nicely written! And you struck on the key concept: death ultimately has no power, and this is what renders its indiscriminate nature feasible. Reminds me of Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion."
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Mark Peterson
Date: 12/8/2013 11:52:00 AM
So sorry, but I don't known Indian names by gender. My friend Nainesh's wife from Mumbai is named Vrusshtti, I believe, but I just call her rain.
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S.Zaynab Kamoonpuri
Date: 12/8/2013 11:08:00 AM
Thanx but im not a sir. Im a lassie from India
Date: 12/4/2013 3:05:00 PM
yes, a very thoughtful write indeed
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Date: 12/3/2013 9:57:00 AM
poem is full of wisdom I can't say more than that , I hope you the best
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Date: 12/2/2013 9:46:00 PM
Very thoughtful expressions on death and the last four philosophical lines tell everything, Zaynub
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Date: 12/2/2013 5:27:00 PM
Wow! This is an exceptional piece, and so so true. Yes, very well worded. Death comes to one and all......Thanks for the visit and kind words! :)
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Date: 12/2/2013 2:03:00 PM
Great poem, Zynub. Thanks for visiting some of my poems. Friend, JM
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Date: 12/2/2013 11:22:00 AM
- When we are born .... we are all born naked - when we die .... we get no wealth with us ... - Very well written! - Thanks for the nice visit on my poem.- oxox // Anne-Lise :)
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