Death - The Greatest Leveler Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam

Death gives no concession
Death spares none;
None can impress death
By being anything
To escape its embrace;

Whoever is born
is certain to die;
Death respects no merit;
Skills in writing poetry
Artistic talents or ideological commitments
Marxist, communist, capitalist, feminist, male chauvinist
Terrorist, scientist;
None can save oneself from death;

The winner in beauty contests
Or delighting participant in fashion pageants,
can not seduce death,
She has to shed the body enthralling
And beauty dissolves into five elements;

Winning games can not win death
Being great sportsman
Can not make death sportsman like;
Death does not care ruler or the ruled
Death is inevitable to the emperor, queen or ordinary citizen
To democratically elected most popular leader or to any one;

Farmer who grows many crops
Or businessman who owns many shops
Has to obey death’s call;
Death is the greatest leveler

Death gives no concession;
Death is equal in operation
And spares none;
After the game is over
The king and the pawn
Go into the same box;

Death has no consideration, compassion
Does its duty with perfect precision.