LAST RESPECT

Men cried out for help when alive,

Begging for companionship just for few minutes,

World rather is too busy meeting targets

To romance it’s accomplishments with ego,

Friends and acquaintances are too busy,

Chasing shadows of unsatisfied ephemerals,

A visit could have made the heart merry,

But no one got the time,

Not even a phone call to the lonely heart,

But after the demise, we all got the time out of no time,

We traveled thousands of miles

To pay our last respect to the dead,

A superfluity of nothingness indeed,

I wander if the respect to the dead really counts

As honouring them while they were alive.

Our best towards one another matters

when we are both alive,

It carries weight of enthusiasm and relief in our heart,

It dispels depression and loneliness of the mind,

It creates psycho-emotional agility in senior citizens,

We cannot be too busy to deny ourselves

Empathy and soul lifting complement.

As our daily needs stares at us,

As our desired prospects put us on race,

And we almost forget families, friends and acquaintances at that corner,

We must allow love and empathy play their roles,

No complementary call is too short for the lonely,

No visitation is too frequent to the depressed,

No greeting is too shallow to our senior citizens,

Emotional care is the greatest gift we can ever give to one another,

In live not after life.

Paying of last rest to the dead we never cared for, is hypocrisy,

Such respect is a broken cistern that holds no water,

People may applaud us for coming to pay our last respect to the dead,

But in all sincerity, we are profligates by

wasting what should have been given to

them when they are alive.

Last respect only matters,

If the deads were conscious of our

Humanitarian service while they were alive,

What goes around comes around,

Let’s occasionally check on families,

Friends, neighbours and acquaintances,

Many are dieing in silence,

Depression and pains are knocking men down,

Don’t wait to pay an immaterial last respect,

Safe the dieing for a lengthy happy moments.