BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
Since then ’t is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.
--Emily Dickinson
--Emily Dickinson
Knowing the fact is that death is unavoidable and one of the few eternal truths of life, we always find it difficult to accept. Couple of months ago, when doctors diagnosed that my Grand mom had Gall Bladder cancer which was in the last stage, we all knew that the death was approaching to her and at her age and in other physical complexity it would be a lost battle but still after her death I feel yet another person with whom I'd spent my childhood , passed away. Now only memories of her will accompany me...
1 comment:
true...reminds me of my Grandfather.
His death reminded me the ultimate truth of the life i.e. there has to be an end... we all must remember this truth and should live every moment of our life to the fullest.
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