Death The Eternal Mystery Poem by Arti Chopra

I see your portrait hanging
Forlornly on the blank wall
And my mind visualises your visage,

Forceful
Domineering
Affectionate in extreme
to your own
Spontaneous laughter
Ringing out
Now only silence

And I am dumbstruck
As it Is bought o me
With a forceful jolt
That you are no more
You have ceased to exist

Death........has struck again
The unexplainable mystery

So Dynamic
A personality
Now a handful of ashes
Submerged in some sacred river
What is the body
Nothing
From dust it came
To dust it will go
Left will be
Only a portrait on the wall
And memories

What is the that
Which creates a living
Smiling human dynamo?
What is that which
Leaves it
For the body to be reduced
to a handful of earth?
The mystery lives on
Eternally confounding
Unanswerable
And we too live on
Waiting for
Death