What Is Death Poem by Mohammad Younus

What Is Death


What is this death?
Nothing but an interval
In the narrative of life
A break in the middle of the episode
A melodrama within the drama of life
A dream in the course of a running dream
A state between SLEEP and wakefulness
It lifts up the curtain to play on a new skit
After coming out of the dream
We find life is an unbroken serial
With brief pauses in between
The serial of episodes unfold
The coming events effortlessly
We come to a new world to play
A new role in the new world order
I am but waiting for that interval
To go out of sight for a little while
To change my portfolio for a new job
To play a new game under a new name
Of course you may not recognise me
Dont call me by my old name
I am carrying a new name
Sitting in a new frame
But I am the same man
The same man as I ever was
The same man I shall ever be
With a continuing saga of life
To fulfil the old Covenant
Under divine guidance
This is the saga of life of real time
I pray to sing the song of love devotedly
I pray I am not repulsed by a shooting star
I pray i get a dignified role to play honestly
In Àlāilliyeen not in Asfalassāfileen

Mykoul