Death is not
Starvation
Neither Tsunami
Nor cessation of heart beat…
When a promise made hides behind equivocation
When a profile coldly vanishes into the back, or
When a man is banished into eternal silence…
That is … a veritable death.
Murders
Suicides
Abortions
Are not death.
When the cherished faith you so covetously held
Mercilessly bites and hurts you deep
When an unfamiliar hand
Turns into a murderous knife
By pinning a wound to the heart like a rose
That… that is death indeed.
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Afsar
Indian

Mr Afsar is a Faculty member at College of Liberal arts, University of Texas at Austin.
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