To the ones that outlived…

Here now and not there next.

I wonder how

It came knocking in pretext.

A sudden call

An ailment long

Both the young and the old,

The feeble and the bold,

It approached the same.

It spared no one..

Memories clawed at the heartstrings

Of the souls left behind

As they watched little kids mourn

And the young shook awaken

To their stay sojourn.

They left without warning

I never wept.

Death never mattered

to the ones treading the journey.

Their hour had arrived,

They would grow to accept.

The turmoil of the living though

Could not be soothed awhile.

For many a day

They could not apprehend why

They had to muster the valor

For an untimely goodbye.

All the love and care

Had ended in a moments time

It had left behind in it’s wake

A heart so bare

It could be tilled by none

Even the ones who ardently tried.

They say, grief when shared is halved

and happiness doubled.

The memory of the departed however

Only stoked the wounds still raw

Until it sobbed a tempest river

Bled again and bubbled.

As the days went on

The tempest calmed.

Life has to move on, they said

For the ones that remain,

Still love you with all they got

And the ones departed await

Until the time you meet again.