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Waiting
Black solid rock impregnable
Seconds ticking by seeming like hours
Crawling stabs of excruciating pain
His mud- body shattered in monsoon rain
Pattering music - the raindrops on the window pane
His face shows a grimace --- what did he gain ??
Whole half of a century striving
Only He knows when his mortal body shall wane
Waiting silently, patiently outside
Two brothers -- morning and Death
Both love the sleeping body slipping fast
Onlookkers only perceive the ships sinking mast
© Bishwanath Mukherjee
