Death & Life Poem by Prabir Gayen

Calmness and restlessness like the vast ocean, Death is born as life.

Only death opens Vista to life, Life blooms on the graveyard, Without death life has no value,

Conscious death brings ablution,

Body dies and life oozes and flows,

One is for other to exist, Death is soil and life is substance, Life and death are not variant, False life brings false death,

(3) Had you ever visited a cremation ground with dead bodies being charred to ashes all around or a graveyard watching dead bodies merging with dust, you wont have this kind of romance with death. I am sorry for my divergent views on the subject. To quote just a few lines from your poem: Life blooms on the graveyard / Without death life has no value, Death is the beginning of life / Life is slow death and relaxation

(2) No one denies the inevitability of death but living under the constant hangover of death is to covert a perfectly beautiful life into a perversion of sorts as has been expressed in the following lines which not only denigrate a blissful life but also lowers its dignity.

Sir, at one place you perceive life as an awakening between two deaths (1. prior to birth and 2. after the death of a person) . But, later in the poem, death, too, is portrayed as some kind of an enlightenment without which life becomes dull (and also meaningless) .

Death is the beginning of life.....great realisation. Lovely piece. Anjandev Roy.

" Slow deep death spreads the seeds of life fulfilling each other, Calmness and restlessness like the vast ocean, Death is born as life." I pray we'll have a peaceful and gentle departure when our time comes. I love your explanation of something very natural as death. My mother-in-law died last year in August. She seemed to be at peace, no pain, no fear just lying there, her energy diminishing as she left peacefully. Blessing to you dear friend.