I Prefer Death And Departure Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

I prefer death and departure

I prefer death and departure
From this wonder world,
Which has been my school
All these years
Making me learn something new
Each second, minute, hour and day

To the torture
Of your not being near

Each second of your absence
Kills me but not squarely
Only to bring me back to life
And torturing

Your presence
Though I used to feel painful
At times
Because of your intervention
Through my unhealthy means
You always demonstrated
Love and care

Your efforts to meet my needs
Exceeded ever my expectations
And my requirements
Were more than met

You came to unearth
My fallacies one after another
With our association growing

While your list of occasions
Where I fell short of your hopes
Increasing day by day
My list of your potentials
Kept elongating with
My discovering newer strengths in you

This is a kind of relationship
Where one’s weakness
Makes the other stronger

Come soon and join me
Before death takes over