Just Before Death Poem by Akhtar Jawad

You gave food to me when I needed food,
you gave water to me when I needed it,
you touched my head and played with my horn,
I still feel your palm on my neck and on my back,
in fact you touched my heart,
though you kept me chained
but walking with you in the early morning,
with one end of the chain around my neck,
and the other in your hands,
was a pleasureful beginning of a new day,
wherever I needed, you were there,
but in this fearful moment when I needed you most
the butcher has tied my legs,
and I see a sharp knife in his sadistic hands,
I am missing you, where are you?
It was my fault, I forgot you are a human!
The worst animal on the face of this earth!
Oh death! You give us only physical pains,
Oh life! One cannot define the pains you give.
Good Bye Master! So long if we meet again,
and for ever if it's all over,
I forgive you for your missing in the time of need,
as your love was main attraction in my life.
I am going to die with a single protest,
if you had to do it,
you wouldn't have loved me so much!