Love And Friendships Are Tools To Live On Earth Poem by Sadashivan Nair

I Watch from over my body,
my 'I', a mirror of mine,
reveals the truth;
I am an aged,
Hair are grey,
Withered body all are pale;
Eyes don’t see,
Lips don’t move,
mouth don’t speak,
Desiccated cadaver in funerary box;
Even leaves are abandoned,
When trees don’t need;
The relations I had,
Thought all would live my side;
The closest friends,
I trusted most;
Are now digging,
to bury me in;
Even wife I loved once most,
She too witnesses,
burring me underground;
She loved not me,
But my body, my structure,
Not my soul, not my ‘I’;
Love and friendship,
All are deceptive tricks,
bond us to exist for ‘karma’;
When purpose over,
Took all from me;
love, relation, amity,
Feeling, emotions and touch;
Now realize were tools on earth,
for my karma assigned to me;
All relations are mortal,
don’t last for long;
Body buried,
My woman wept;
Dew drops from her eyes,
Have no arms to wipe;
have no body to solace,
Her moan by my bracing embrace;
Not even emotions to feel her pain;
All exist in this world,
They are only tools;
No-less, no-more all belong to earth,
We come and go,
Leave all back on earth;

© Sadashivan Nair