LIGHTER MOMENTS
Year : 2021 | Volume
: 24 | Issue : 6 | Page : 930-
Amidst the embers
Divyani Garg Department of Neurology, Neo Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Divyani Garg Department of Neurology, Neo Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh India
How to cite this article:
Garg D. Amidst the embers.Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2021;24:930-930
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There is no silence in the world
As profound as the silence
That follows defeat.
A defeat that occurs often
Despite a cacophony of chest thrusts, oxygen, adrenaline
Attempting to retain life.
But death- it lies alone, pale, unbelievably still
Wreathed in tubes, wires, exhaustion
Quiet amidst the ruins
Of a collective failure to revive.
These days-
This silence is missing, it has gone rogue
It does not think to stay
To give us a moment
To say a goodbye, a fare-thee-well,
A please-wait-for-me-on-the-other-side
to the dearest departed
There is only endless noise
Vivid jagged noise
Crackling amidst the embers
Rising up howling like flames
Clawing its way in instantly
At the precise moment of departure
Demanding that bed, that ventilator, that oxygen.
What is grief?
It is a deep long internal silence
It is a lonesome cold star
Twinkling at its own frequency
In a vast black sky.
Where is that grief?
These days-
Grief is a strange new infernal noise
Which roars and clangs
And like wildfire, it swirls everywhere.
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