24/09: Come, Ye Death
Come ye Death,
Come soon and take me;
To somewhere far away.
Come fast ye Death,
Come soon to end
This affliction and ache
Amicably, come now.
The wicked arrows of life
Have stung the past and present;
But come ye Death;
Come and withhold the sting
Of the future.
Come and slay, quickly,
The swords of dolor,
With one master stroke
From Thy great sword.
Ti's heavy this burden,
This weight of existence;
Oh come ye Death,
The wait has been long.
The nights that remain,
Days that never come,
And yet this hope that lives;
Come ye Death;
Come, bring eternal darkness
And forever let it be.
Oh how I pray,
For Death to come,
To end this plight,
And to take flight
To the skies and beyond.
I open my hands
To the Heavens above,
And pray once more:
Oh come, ye Death,
Come this day.
Be swift, oh Death,
Come right away,
Come and drive
The last nail.
Come soon and take me;
To somewhere far away.
Come fast ye Death,
Come soon to end
This affliction and ache
Amicably, come now.
The wicked arrows of life
Have stung the past and present;
But come ye Death;
Come and withhold the sting
Of the future.
Come and slay, quickly,
The swords of dolor,
With one master stroke
From Thy great sword.
Ti's heavy this burden,
This weight of existence;
Oh come ye Death,
The wait has been long.
The nights that remain,
Days that never come,
And yet this hope that lives;
Come ye Death;
Come, bring eternal darkness
And forever let it be.
Oh how I pray,
For Death to come,
To end this plight,
And to take flight
To the skies and beyond.
I open my hands
To the Heavens above,
And pray once more:
Oh come, ye Death,
Come this day.
Be swift, oh Death,
Come right away,
Come and drive
The last nail.
NBhaskar wrote:
...the way a honey bee shuttles a million times between its comb and the vast expanse of the nature in making honey, its life process.
There are no such things as good-bad, right-wrong, holy-evil, truth-lie, triumph-failure and beauty-ugly in the objective world. These are mere creations of mind. We, human beings with powerful and creative mind, take the divided or segmented world view. The world is seamless and simply exists its way.
It is the subjective world (of the mind) that is divided and source of all dualities (good-bad, right-wrong, holy-evil, truth-lie, triumph-failure and beauty-ugly etc.,) of life. You must root yourself in that dimension which is source of all these dualities where you can go through this life of dualities without a scratch upon you.
But we tend to largely tread at the level of dualities and experience pain and pleasure. while pleasure lives for the moment and disappears soon; the pain lingers as it sets you in to worry; worry breeds worry and you may find life unworthy of living.
Joyful living is all about a particular view of the world, which is holistic, inclusive and seamless. just as a wildlife enthusiast silently and quietly watches a lion preying on a deer. Neither the pleasure of the lion nor the pain of the deer bothers him. Neither the pleasure nor the pain triumphs ; they are one another; they are the same; they are one.
If you play cricket, just think of this situation;
You are the bat
You are the ball,
You are the pavilion catch
And you are the sixer too.
Every match would be joyful; so would be life.
..........take a (Re)look