The Dozen Faces of Death

     
                                       

           1} Death anticipated is:-

               Ambulances honking all through the way.

           2} Death waitlisted is:-

               Waiters’ patience wasting away

           3} Death marked in hit list is:-

               Encounters  empowering the agents of death

           4} Death engineered is:-

              Mercenaries manifesting their macabre might.

           5} Death committed is:-

              The failure of the art of living on all counts.

           6} Death executed is:-

              Judicial sanctions getting sanctified.

           7} Death declared is:-

               Putting a nail on life’s coffin.

           8} Death reported is:-

               The Fourth Estate parading its flair for poetry.

           9} Death mourned is:-

              The writing of elegies on an experimental basis.

          10} Death celebrated is:-

               Dispensing happily with unwanted,undesirable lives.

          11} Death honoured is:-

               Gunshots hitting the height of skies.

          12} Death experienced is:-

               Serene Silence stealing the show.

                                                               P.Chandrasekaran