Human Touch Of Krishna Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

Bhagavad Gita contains shlokas
In Chapter Two, how
The self slays not, nor is slain,
[Emerson picked it up from here]
It is never born, nor does it ever die.

And then the Speaker says, ‘But if you think
The Self repeatedly comes into being and dies,
Even then, O mighty one, you should not grieve for it’.

Wow! Speaker is Lord Krishna himself
But raises an option human-like,
That life may not be eternal,
That self may not be immortal,
That every being is evanescent,
Alive only between birth and death.

Only Death will meet with everyone:
Whether it is the same self or soul
That gets embodied every time,
Perhaps you put in an appearance
And then vanish for ever, bubble-like.

Echo of Omar Khayyam in Bhagavad Gita
By way of an option only, but still there;
Humans feel it is real, death is end.
Eat, drink, and be merry - they go.
Uncertainty is only for argument.