Mum….....Everything ceases to be

Everything ceases to be
The law says so
And I have seen that – daily.

Everything ceases to be
In growth we love and smile
In constriction we fear and growl
In time to come
Everything shall cease to be.

Knowing everything shall cease to be
I strive to accept the reality
That unchanged reality, the king of truth
That one day everything shall cease to be.

Try as hard as I may
To believe that everything will cease to be,
I can’t forsake the rising tsunami
That feeling of strong attachment
My mum - how could I see her pass through?
So easily and swiftly.

I wonder if the umbilical bond
Is severed for good with only yearnings remain,
Where goes the spirit if not mingling with feelings
Of the loved ones born with her and born from her?
Stranger I am to many people around me
But, I know to my mum am neither stranger nor friend
Just like other siblings, I am to her, another life.

A day before her passing away
Her look sang a melody
Her request for me to kiss her on her cheek
Pierced my heart with fear of separation.
The words uttered from the bed
Still sounds clear to me
The last physical existence she knew was nearing
When she said with that loving gaze
“I am leaving”.

I wished not that for that
Alas! The law speaks non-stop
“Everything shall cease to be one day”

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