Who Says Death Means A Day Off Poem by Syed Ahmed Shah

Imagine
I died today
No work for me from now on
But you, my friend, is not so lucky...

Visit the grave yard
Select a spot
Arrange for the digging
Bath me
Clothe me in that white shroud
Carry me to the burial ground
Namaaz-e-Janaaza
Put me down
Fill it up
Three handfulls
'From the (earth) did We
Create you, and into it
Shall We return you,
And from it shall We
Bring you out once again' (Quran)
...

Get my name entered in the register
Get the certificate...

Console my wife and daughter...


Sorry to put you in so much inconvenience...! ! !


(c) Syed Ahmed Shah, Bokultol, Guwahati.