It’s funny. Listening to the song every time we touch, my eyes fell on one of the comments:
Guess every time we touch
I get the virus
And every time we kiss
I swear I might die
How appropriate to our COVID filled world!
Tag Archives: death
The Last Sunset
I took this photo of sunset last evening in a parking lot.
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Today the sky is slate grey. It’s a gloomy day for sure. It seems to me more so with the sudden death of an an acquaintance’s father. I had met the old couple at their son’s home. They lived with their son. The burial is for tomorrow, and the family is waiting for the couple’s second son to reach Houston in time to see his father for the last time.
To me it’s a sad time to hear about someone dying. It brings home to me that our stay on earth is transient, and at the end everyone is going to leave the earthy abode for someplace else. One friend always used to grumble as to why Adam, and Eve ate from the forbidden tree? If they had not done so, the humans wouldn’t have to get banished to earth, and wouldn’t have suffered death. Her question would make us laugh.
I have noticed that the day death occurs in my family, or those I have known, the weather turns gloomy, and I feel cold.
Does this happens to you too?
October
Everyone has an important month in their life. Mine is October. My wedding happened in it. Nobody planned it that way. My late husband was in a different part of our country. He could only get fifteen days leave, and so whatever date he said he was available for the marriage ceremony, it became the due date.
Another coincidence. My daughter had her Nikah ceremony in the last week of October. We wanted laughter, and gaiety in our midst, and so we made it happen, although her actual wedding date was four years later on. Both she, and her would be husband were students.
My late husband’s date of birth was twenty sixth of October. He graduated from PMA as an army officer on eighteenth of the month. Every year we celebrated the event by getting together for a sumptuous dinner with fellow graduates, and their families. The tradition stopped with his death, as I couldn’t bear to go alone.
One of the saddest thing in my life happened this month too. I lost my mother as a five years old child. She died of a stroke on fifteenth of October. She was twenty eight. There is nothing sadder than children losing their mother when they are too young, and can’t take care of themselves on their own. The world is a cruel place,
Guess what? The planet 🌏 earth became my abode when I was born in the last week of this same month. I can say October belongs to me.
Despicable
First it was Zardari who wanted to gain sympathies of the poor fools (who forget how the wily politicians try to gain their votes, and then forget their promises), by first murdering Benazir Bhutto, and then posturing as the bereaved husband. He even changed his children’s last names to Bhutto. He would place Benazir’s photo every place he sat, stood, or whatever.
Taking a leaf from Zardari’s antics, now it’s Nawaz Sharif’s turn. While Zardari rule has been as a president of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif (not sharif (pious) as the name indicates) has been a Prime Minister. He recently shamed the country publicly in acknowledging the debacle of terrorism which India accused Pakistan of doing so, and the Indian government themselves staged. I hope, and pray the people chase him with sticks, or shower him with rotten eggs, or tomatoes, when he dares show his face to the public.
It’s laughable Nawaz Sharif spending huge amounts in Pounds currency to keep the dead Kulsum Nawaz (his wife) alive on ventilators in England, just to gain sympathies of the masses to win elections in Pakistan. In his tenure as a Prime Minister he sank Pakistan more deeply into the quagmires of debt than his predecessors.
It will be more beneficial to his dead wife if he gives away that money in charity in her name, or give relief to our poor country in paying the country’s huge debts from IMF.
Please Mr. Nawaz spare us your from your crocodile tears.
Faint
My village home front lawn
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Feeling faint with worry I listened to the phone call from my chowkidar (watchman or caretaker) who looks after my village home in Charsadda, Pakistan. He let me know that my brother in law A had been sick for some time. His wife had died thirteen years earlier. He had no children, and there was no one to take care of him. The chowkidar Hakim wanted me to give him permission to bring A to my home so that he could take care of him. Barely three days later Hakim wanted me to care of the incurring expenses. Seeing no way out I had to agree to it.
I just don’t understand where has his money gone from his bank account, saving funds, and from his property? He wasn’t poor. Why didn’t Hakim told me earlier, so that I had a talk with A?
I had gone early to bed a day earlier. Wakened by the phone I listened to the news that A had died. It was night here but the day of 6th November had already dawned back in Charsadda. I had to give permission for the burial expenses, and so on.
I sometimes think it’s becoming harder to exist, and God piles on to test your faith. Son has been without a job since August. His bills,spousal, and child support has become my responsibility too. I hope Son soon acquire a job, otherwise I don’t know what we are going to do?
Please pray for us. Thank you.
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DAILY PROMPT
Faint
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Finite
Our life is finite, but we forget
Dreaming our life as we go on living
We think we have innumerable days
Though we see death stalking
People around us
Till our time to live gets over
And it’s our turn for dying
(Sheen-September2017)
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DAILY PROMPT
Finite
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Elixir
The after world is a mystery
Only solved after death
Sometimes I am sanguine
At other times I dread
What’s going to happen next?
I pray in the mornings, evenings, and nights
Noons, afternoons, and at other times
The prayers are my elixir
For heaven above
(Sheen-March2017)
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DAILY PROMPT
Elixir
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Trust
In God we trust
To Him we return
He is our Savior
In life and in death
He takes care of His beings
Always
So believe in One God
There is no God but He
(Sheen-October 2016)
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DAILY PROMPT
Trust
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Cheat
Who can cheat death when it comes along
None I can say
With its deathly silence it holds you in its grip
Taking out your soul
While you close your eyes and sleep
Till eternity
(Sheen-Aug2016)
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I looked past your cheating
I wanted you happy
Did it matter
I wasn’t happy at all
So I turned the other way and left
Trying to forge a new life
Working past the pain
Now the time has long gone
For you to think of us together again
Once trust is broken
It can never be whole again
(Sheen-Aug2016)
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DAILY PROMPT
Cheat
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Companion
What it’s like to lose a companion
When the loss hits you, you know
Memories come rushing back
And heart aches anew
Sitting in the back of my brother’s car
Listening to my brother and his wife
I realize with a jolt again
I will never have my own companion back, and I can’t undo
Which death has taken, and I bid adieu
Seeing couples holding hands
Fresh grief strikes to hold that hand once I had anew
(Sheen-June2016)
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DAILY PROMPT
Companion
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Flowers and Breezes 