Every Soul Has To Taste Death Poem by Mohammad Younus

Every soul has to taste death;
Don't fear that you are departing;
Even on leaving you are still living;
Look deeply:
Before coming here...
...you were living;
Has there not been an endless span of time...
...before man appeared here?
He was not yet a thing to be thought of!
The birth and death are...
...just like the rhythm of heart;
That keeps you living...
...to hear, to see, to speak, and do marvels;
But you kill each other...
...and spill your own blood;
You had to create springs here...
...to make the flowers bloom...
...and load fragrance on the shoulders of...
...morning and evening breezes;
But you are filling the seven seas...
...with human tears and blood;
Please do your true job of creating peace;
But when it is said to you...
...don't create mischief on the earth;
You shamelessly retort...
...that you are only reforming the world;
Please let me live in true peace;
So that I wake up,
and open the window of my heart...
...to see peace flowering all over the earth!

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