The Last Time... Poem by Mohammad Younus

The last time...
...I was in his audience...
...in his wooden hut...
...with quilt on his knees...
...he leaned forward...
...and looked into my eyes.

He took my two hands...
...in his hands and said,
'I'm going to die soon;
I want you to know that...
...I won't go into nonexistence;
I will be living, but...
...we cannot meet in this form.

And I said,
'I think I do know!
We will never meet...
...as we are now...
...in this hermitage.'
And he said,
'what surprises me is...
...that you don't know:
The spirit is not perishing.'

And I said,
I do know, sir!
And he said,
What?
And I said,
That you're going to live.

And he said,
No, I mean that you should...
...know that you too will die;
But you too will not perish;
We will be resurrected...
...from dead.

MyKoul