Dirge Poems -5 Poem by ashok jadhav

1. Emotional Death (Living Loss)
You breathe, you walk, you speak each day,
Yet something vital has withdrawn;
The smile performs its fragile role,
But feeling died at dawn.
This is a death no grave receives,
No ritual can end—
A life still moving through the world
Without its inner friend.
2. Death of Dreams or Hopes
We built a future out of light
And named it someday soon;
The walls were faith, the roof was trust,
The door a rising moon.
Now hope lies folded, neatly still,
No longer asking why;
Dreams die quietly—unmourned,
Yet teach the heart to sigh.
3. Digital Absence (Empty Chats, Silent Phones)
Your last reply still marks the screen,
A timestamp without breath;
The phone glows on with borrowed life,
Unaware it speaks of death.
Blue ticks wait like open eyes
That never close again;
Grief scrolls endlessly through proof
Of words that will not send.
4. Pandemic Loss
No final touch, no closing prayer,
No hand to gently hold;
Goodbyes were sealed behind a glass,
And grief was left untold.
The world kept count of numbers lost,
But missed the names they bore;
Each silence marked a life erased
From everything but sore.
5. Urban Loneliness After Death
The city roars with endless sound,
Yet none can call your name;
Among a million moving lives,
My solitude remains.
Neon lights replace the stars,
Crowds pass, untouched, untrue;
In all this human closeness, death
Has taught me to miss you.
6. Anonymous Death
No flowers lean above this grave,
No mourners know the way;
A life concluded without echo
At the end of day.
Yet even nameless dust was once
A heartbeat, fierce and warm;
The world forgets—but earth records
Each life it chose to ignore.