Death And Birth, Illusionary. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Grief is the feeling arising
From a loss of things or persons.
It destroys courage and spirit,
And can't influence the event.

When you see a leaf as a whole,
The death of its cells doesn't count'
When you see a tree as a whole,
The death of a leaf does not count.

Mater and energy make the world.
Neither of them witnesses death.
Conversion of them is not death.
One disintegrates into other.

The living kingdom is a tree,
With a single live string running
Through all organisms, making
No sense to death and birth in life.
25.07.2022