Death, Thou Are A Winner. Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Death you are a winner
You never fail in your plans.
You disdainfully upset our
well laid out plans
and wreaks havoc in our
lives with a cheeky nonchalance.

We never agree that you
are a looming and invisible
presence as we chug on
with this endeavor
someone named life.
But death you know.

You may or may not give
any inkling about your arrival
And you have your own designs
and plans which you
bring to life with the suddenness
of bringing a curtain down.

Death, when you spring
to life, life is snuffed out
with consummate ease.
You simply are a ruthlessly
efficient craftsman who
knows only success.

When we hapless humans
rejoice on occasions
when we seem to have
obdurately resisted you.
We know it is not our victory,
it is just that you let go.

Being a winner always
you could afford to take rest
and allow the ever beaten life
to have its own victories
however small they may be.
But knowing you we know
it would never materialize.

Death you are a winner
You have always been one
And you never feel monotony
in your relentless victory over
life we never challenge your authority,
we just yearn for your
mercy day in and out.

But death thou never feel
a tinge of boredom
And life has become tired
of losing to you always..
You keep on winning
and ends up disparaging
the desperate life.

Death you are a winner
A champion who brutally
annihilates your badly beaten
adversary, life, the hapless life.
Death you are born to win,
Just as we are born to die