Take only what you can carry,
Only what you need.
Just enough to feed and water
You and a faithful steed.

Forget the path well trodden,
That will not help you on your way.
Instead forge your own trail
For others to follow one day.

Never shy from an opportunity
Throw yourself through every door.
For this life is an adventure,
Now go,
Explore!

Time went by after you left,
The dawn was still cold as i wept,
The daybreak dews matched my tears,
As they fell upon the leaves in sphere.
Sometimes i ponder,
If there could’ve been a wonder,
When you held my hand and told me,
“I will no longer remain here, you see”.
For you knew your death was trailing behind,
Making you wish you could just rewind,
Just to let me hold your hand,
And when i did,
Your hands were cold and blue,
For i have been holding the hands of my mother,
Who had been long gone.

I kept the book you gave me,
the one you never finished.
The corners are still creased
where you stopped -
a moment frozen in paper.

I tried to read past it once,
but the words were ghosts
of a story I didn’t know
how to end.

So it sits on my shelf,
not quite forgotten,
not quite forgiven,
like the memory of you.

An emptiness grows
As I watch the world burning.
I wish man was good.

If I was afraid of death,
Between birth and death there is life,
Death is inevitable,
It will come any second,
So why fear something which is surely to come,
Just focus on life,
The precious Gift you have.
30/3//2025

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