Friday, February 06, 2009

passing

there had been
his pharmacy,
his wife at sixteen, at seventy,
his three daughters and one son a stranger,
their children,
love
hope
deep sadness and insult, with not a word spoken and many a tear shed
humour,

overwhelming fear of death

and then,
the air he breathed eloped with his life

2 comments:

rorschach said...

and thats all there is to life? i hope not. cheers.

Meenakshi said...

no, theres even less to it sometimes.