Disappearance by Shishir Lakhani
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Disappearance
The flow of life has its own rhythm.
Celebrating birth with arrival, struggles of existence are never far behind
Occasional ecstasy of the opium of prosperity… Salvos of clapping
Then
Those caring expressions that disappear … when your back is turned …
Shadows creep in
… and then, of course, the grief
The grief … of having lived and then having to die
Life was but a fleeting companion.
For a brief instance, the world stands in silence
… as though respecting your demise.
A void of … Lifeless terrain
A vacuum where you once stood
Like a wave that rises from the ocean
Glorious and powerful casting its own daunting shadows
… only
Only to disappear in an instant … into the inviting sea
Did the wave disappear?
… Or did it become one
One with that powerful mighty ocean?
Such rhythms flash through the mind
… appear and disappear
Life is a constant lesson
Of our own conjuring … illuminating our ultimate powers
That final magic trick … we each learn to perform
that of … disappearing forever