Letter To Death
Pray, what is your purpose, Death?
Carrying souls to their fated dues,
Via your messengers, beings so vile and so ugly
That the eyes hurt simply by looking at them!
Are you part of God's team?
Acting on His orders, reaping souls from the mundane
Like we reap grapes from vineyards?
Or do you act on your own?
Attempting always to snatch souls away
Before they manage to reach the abode of God?
Pray, Death, why do you even exist?
Living leads us nowhere,
We grow, we bloom, we reach our apex
Only to turn into decaying messes!
Then, you come around and you submit us
To another dose of torture
As, supposedly, we are to be punished for how we have played
All this time!
Existing is like being strapped to an everlasting tornado
Swirling and swirling into an incomprehensible medium
Going nowhere and being meaningless and burdensome!
Why, Death, are you secured from your own purpose?
Do you not meet with Death too?
If so, then, is existing not void?
Pray, enough of all of this senseless drama
We are slaves, each one of us,
From Mother Earth, to humans, to you Death,
We are slaves, we own nothing, we rule not even ourselves
We chose not even to birth
Life is simply imposed upon us and tagged we become
With a load of actions leading to some reactions
Which push us towards deeper detriments!
Enough, I am fed up,
Religion is a lie!
Life is corrupt!
Humans, fooled into a plot to accept their own existence,
To soothe their suffering
Remain compelled to act as per some guidelines!
Why, Death, I am at a stage where I have lost faith in everything
My heart has coiled around it,
The snakes of negativity and they constantly inject it
With their venomous broods!
I crave to be soothed,
But I wish to have my questions answered,
What is your purpose in all of this?
More, what is my purpose while I lead an existence
In a false world?
Copyright © Anoucheka Gangabissoon | Year Posted 2019
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