Leaving This World For Good
Leaving this World for Good (IFL)
Back from a second surgical treatment
Lasting several frightful hours,
I was lying on bed, unconscious,
Faint and without any power;
With the eyes still closed all over,
With gloomy darkness all around,
In the quietude of the room
One could hardly hear a single sound;
Soon the chloroform within waned away;
Now the whole body pined with pain,
Now the bowels seemed to be torn apart
Now the affliction seemed to reach the brain;
Now the unmoving body changed its hue;
With dripping eyes beloved relatives,
Bewildered and knowing not what to do,
All prayed for the Lord to assuage the pain;
But, alas the pain became more acute
And relatives fearing for my safety
Sought the mercy of the Supreme Lord
And the clemency of the Almighty.
With the pain now unduly hard to bear,
I slightly closed my feeble eyes,
And that no one might at all hear,
Silently prayed for endless hours;
Soon a small, seamless ray of light
Invisible to the human eye
Escaped from my unmoving body
And flitted away towards the sky;
As the light mounted up high apace
And glided towards the open space
It seemed like…l was leaving this world
It seemed like I was leaving this world for good.
Written by Krishnanand Guptar
On 8 February 2023
Copyright © Krishnanand Guptar | Year Posted 2023
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