SOMETHING I LOOK AT-102 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY DYING A DEATH Oh my near and dear! don't stretch my life beyond nature's favour. When death is a certainty, why are you so reluctant to accept the reality? When hours and days are numbered of what use adding a few more? My body never listens to what i say, my mind is not with me, somewhere else. I am not the same I was, the battle is over, yet to fight the war. How long you will stretch my life and what for? Is a body having very little in it going to serve you and your purpose anymore? Don't drag me to the icy, I don't want to languish in pain waiting for a death so difficult to come by. I lived life to the full, let me live my last days as I wish with all that I loved and lived with. In open air and bright sunlight let me take my last breath in the midst of kith and kin, take the last few steps slowly and silently and feel the moment that stands between life and death. Don't put me on a ventilator, I never want to lie motionless enduring all the pain that comes my way, silently suffering with none of my friends hands and legs, eyes and ears to stand by. Imagine life on life supports, how horrible it is with organs after organs failing leaving me to witness my trusted friends dying one by one making me the sole survivor to endure the pain and agony with a few drops of tears oozing out of my eyes. My dear! death is a peaceful transition from one state of consciousness to another, our ignorance, desire and attempt to stretch it make it unnatural, unbearable, sad and pathetic. If you love me, let me die as such with the cool breeze and bright sunshine drenching the whole of me. Let me bid farewell to my beautiful world where I was loved and betrayed, smiled and cried, lived the whole of my life in hope and despair. ©smrutiranjan 14.9.2018 #SOMETHING I LOOK AT-102 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY DYING A DEATH Oh my near and dear! don't stretch my life beyond nature's favour.