A Solo Wedding Poem by Akhtar Jawad

A Solo Wedding

Rating: 4.5


Look at me I am counting down,
death is the final fate,
but who knows when he will die?
It's me!
who knows the time of her death,
I am a cancer patient,
since my early childhood
I always dreamed
a bride in a white bridal gown
standing in a church
making all the promises
a bride undertakes on oath.
Death!
You can't stop me to become a bride.
Look at me I am a bride,
in a white gown
standing at a church
see me smiling.
Yes, it's a solo wedding,
nobody is here to kiss me.
You have seen my smile
and if you see my eyes are wet,
don't look at my eyes,
look at my lips
that still smile.
Life is bad bot not so much bad,
we can steal a moment of happiness,
a beautiful lie!
How much bitter may be the truths of life!

A Solo Wedding
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: life and death
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A Taiwanese woman with terminal cancer gets her dream wedding despite being single. (With thanks to BBC / MSN)
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Valsa George 16 May 2017

Yes, we confront with bitter truths almost every day in life, but life also gives us singular occasions to smile! A sad tale told beautifully.... a corpse dressed in bridal gown!

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Loke Kok Yee 16 May 2017

A moment of happiness near the point of death, wet eyes but smiling lips, only you can bring it out so touchingly! Thank you sir-10

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Jazib Kamalvi 11 May 2017

A sublime imagination indeed. Thanks

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Khalida Bano Ali 11 May 2017

A touching poem...................................................

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