Monday, August 13, 2007

Journey begins...


They say "DEATH does not concern us, bother us because till the time we are alive, death is not here and when death finally arrives, life is no where.

This is true but another truth is that, it is true only for the person who dies but not for the ones who are left behind...
For them it is the beginning of a new journey...really a long one!

1 comment:

Nimish Dubey said...

A bit morbid, but so true. And well, death is something that all of us have to face at some stage of the other. It reminds me of that famous poem by Alan Seeger:

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.


It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Incidentally, I have always felt that it was this poem that inspired Harivansh Rai Bachchan's famous "Maut, tu ek kavita hai" (read out by Amitabh Bachchan in 'Anand')