I Had A Thought On Your Funeral... Poem by Anshul Gupta
I Had A Thought On Your Funeral...
Eighty years of life
on this Earth
Was it worth?
I had a thought on your funeral.
Eighty years ago in heaven
when you were just the soul
and wanted to forever become
a part of this whole
You urged God to grant you a life
And promised
you would this time achieve your goal
But did you keep your promise at all?
I had a thought on your funeral.
The aim of your taking birth was
Service, contribution and asceticism
You instead chose
Hoarding, platitude and hedonism
God prescribed
Love, joy and compassion
On your life you inscribed
Jealousy, gloom and repression
I had a thought on your funeral.
Childhood’s dawn wiped out in dependence
Lust devoured on the morning of adolescence
Youth’s noon you squandered
due to fear and apprehension
Dusk of old age got totaled in
egotism, vanity and pretension
I had a thought on your funeral.
I asked myself
Was I any different from you?
Was I keeping my own promise to God?
The response from within came in negative
My heart did not give the nod
Seeing you sleeping in God’s lap
with a performance that was dismal
Your funeral appeared to me
as God’s signal
And I realized I had a chance to change
before I reached my own burial.
I had a thought on your funeral.
(30.08.2011; New Delhi; India)
Well written and you portrayed a life here very wonderfully.. Nice work..
Time sometimes seems to fly as a super jet or as slow as a butterfly but nevertheless, it does fly without one realizing that what one did yesterday is now bouncing back in the mind just as old memories torturing one's present! One had a break and failed but a little time is left to repent before going back to the Supreme Judge! A very deep and thought provoking write that really touch the reader! Love it! 10+++ Keep it up my friend! Romeo from New York City! Thanks for sharing!
this poem almost made me cry. i had to go to quite a few loved ones funerals and i always had that thought in my mind and heart. very good write
Full of tears in my heart, wish to write few words hre, I love this mum God prescribed Love, joy and compassion On your life you inscribed Jealousy, gloom and repression I had a thought on your funeral we had ours world.. where we never know the sacred touch of her...
many times, we see othrs' faults. But the truth is, sometimes, we can see ourselves in others. and as we analyze their life, we are forced to analyze our own. we find that we have the same faults - or worse. An 'eye opener, ' it gives us a second chance at life- to get it right. Second chances are the greatest gifts. thinking on another's funeral motivated you to think on your own. Very thought provoking. Thank you.
Great piece of work. Thanks for sharing it with us. E.K.L.
thats a good food for thought......... avoid complex words like aggrandizement use a simple synonym of it instead. good work....... a reminder to all mortal souls.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/24/2024 9:30:18 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Very improvised and thought evoking write..Eighty years nowadays is long time a person renders life away from the verges of death no matter rich or poor...