A soul never dies

On organ donation day(13-08-2014)

A Soul never dies

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Her eclipsed face devoid of emotions

near his bedside staring into blank

going through the motions.

His fixed eye staring back

with heavily bandaged head

 declared brain dead.

 Nurses glancing expectantly

 watching her trembling hands

 signing on dotted lines

 she nods in approval

 a tear drop rolls down

 watching poignantly

 all life support removal.

 Not a good sight for a mother to see

 yet she wished to felicitate

 the flight of a soul to be

 till caged in the body

 for another birth

 a myth

 she believed.

Tears refusing to stream, clenching her fists

pulling her own body, a physical wreck

holding her emotions in check

lest her courage gives away

watches his body carted away .

Clinical strategy taking over physical ethos

She reconciled soon with the loss

but could never take off the albatross.*

.

One afternoon,

strange but smiling faces

descended like angles from heaven

at her door with the Dean

young and not too young,

all were terminal cases

but lived to see the day

through harvesting his son’s

different tissues and organs.

She believed in the myth

A SOUL NEVER DIES.

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