The Fallen Autumn Leaves! Poem by Ramesh T A

Like falling Autumn leaves, people are falling dead
By Corona disease now not only in hospitals but also
In the streets in the busy daytime traffic, as valueless
Currencies, carcasses are carried away in garbage vans!

Yes, humanity loses its value once dead in the material
World, where one is praised if one is a hero or soldier
Or minister or president and so on when in action, but
If one falls down dead, one is just a valueless carcass!

What one does when alive is remembered and praised as
Long as beneficial to world men and remembered by all;
Once dies by disease, one is pitied for a while and
Very soon forgotten as the fallen Autumn leaf in world!

Let the dead be honoured for some deeds done in the world
With proper funeral though known or unknown to society!