Death Be Not Proud

by Kerala In Mumbai
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With the world ageing fast,
With more old people
Leaving their own families,
To move to old age homes,
Wishing a peaceful old age
Away from
The hustle and bustle of city life,
To face the inevitable death
That one day would
Visit them
To wrap them silently.

With more old people
Being discontented,
Disturbed and worried
With the materialistic world,
Wishing in their old age
To be not a thorn
In the life of their children.

Fearing their failing health,
Worried about the rising hospital costs,
The pain and the trauma
They have to endure,
All makes them silently,
To wish for their death,
To invite death
Even by the back door.

By — Rajan Nambiar,
Matunga, Mumbai

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