Krishnanand Guptar Poet Rhyme

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

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