Pangs of Death- Shwetha Harsha

Alone and lonely, I tread my path solemnly swearing that I would live a life of happiness

Brazen I stand, after all the blows in life, bold yet cowardly my demeanor is

Company I have I think , two is a company they say yet thoughts do not merge

Dark and Dainty my days , it was sunny with you, my love, Now it is nightly

Effervescent it should have been with you, without you, I am in incomplete , life indolent

Fallen and failed I respect , I concur to views on life, on success, on happiness

Grateful I stand, I stand corrected, my world is expanded

Heavy and haggard, my heart is, can't carry my heart's mass

Indolent I feel with no fuzziness , with no energy , no sunshine

Jaded , I go forward with Time, time is the ultimate I now know

Kicked and knocked , I fall repeatedly to learn lessons

Lucky are those, who do not understand death, who live like there’s tomorrow

Miraculous is their approach, maverick , carelessly dangling opinions on time

Necklace of pain beads, nerves of steel , nuggets of memories, threads sewn into needles

Obvious moments of tenderness lost , only solace is nostalgia

Pain of death lurking , cries of help , cries of helplessness

Quarantine thoughts of quizzical nature, of not quantum are the hope , the efforts

Risk, reflection, frail body with strong conviction is what I remember

Sassy , sacred , smart , sharp , sweet; adjectives feel small in front of you

Tumultuous was your health , life, yet you went stedfast , forward, reminding me often that

Unrelated circumstances are best left unattended

Vague descriptions are to be filled with established patterns, faces with colors , with life , with fervor

Wages come and go , memories are here to stay, form them like a potter who gives shape

Xeric canvas , must be filled with colors of the rainbow, dash of different hues with saturation , red , green and blue and the new

Yacht, we are sailing in , between yawns and yaps

Zilch is this precious life in the grand scheme of the Universe but we need to travel with zest and zeal

The demeanor of death makes time slow yet swift action is taken , taking away all the pizzazz

Pain shoots up in a second, seconds seem like infinite agony

Peace far in this desert, Not a moment to relax

Can we wait a second, a minute , a lifetime, ask Him to start anew

This life is a theatre where we are actors, but all this is an improv

On the go , inventing moments as we live , Mixed portmanteau of instants , to at least bid adieu

As the dark night grows in expanse, the knight gets up to orbit

The onset of Time , strutting and trusting to be out of the chaos

Eager to cheer life , yet too famished to even utter

Words of encouragement to self , you retreat in mind , but not in spirit , mixing with Nature's cinq

Your courage to fight , your soft nature , I will tell these tales till I live and then pass on up

Knowing I led a life you wanted to live , your aficionado

Black obscurity still remains , death remains a quiz , we mourn , groan

Fools we are , axioms we believe to be true , which ends in gloom

Death is an inevitable current or a cruel devil

Frankly , I am all blank

It's all about ruling self , swa-raj

against constant loss of hope or sheer Ennui

Of life itself , and the pain and anguish

One day , I will leave behind , a legacy just like you did , people cling to the bling

They still do , we two know that stings of lessons, of motif

Taught us that grief is the abode

That we go to constantly with death looking at us , baked yet fresh we should go proud

We should sing a lyric or two , dance to the tune of magic

Of sheer patterns , of hearts that throb

For us , that's all there is between birth and death - a dogma?