If I Die Today Poem by Banik Rai

If I die today
The world will forget me
And I will at afterlife pay
Thanks to death who'd set me free.
But so dark death may
Be that nothing I may see
And nowhere I may stay
Then I would, no more, be.
So, afraid I'm with the play
Of death and must I flee
From its shade, from its way.
But where is that key
Which leads me to somewhere away
From death, to the sea
Of life, where death can slay
Me ne'er and where my glee
Knows no bounds. But nay,
Such sea exists not unfortunately
Death comes anyways one day
Either I agree or disagree
So, why should I fear anyway
For death is certain inevitably.
So, no more I fear the grey
And dark death for comely
It is and if I die today
I'll embrace it blissfully.