Vinod Narayanan
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The Cemetery Guard
Thoughts carry me to new horizons,
in search of soulful happiness.
Today I am a cemetery guard,
who assures rest of peace to your beloved ones.
The guard knows that the eyes,
of the living, are deceiving.
He said ‘morning’ to someone yesterday.
Now with mourning, dig the grave for him.
The life he sees with his own eyes
becomes a stage for artists to perform
and leave when they are told to.
Like the rest of us, he doesn't know he's also an actor.
His nights are sleepless,
with haunting odor of rotten flowers
“Like the flowers rot, the love for someone here will rot”
He pondered.
The guard envies most of his accompanied
since people cry for them and kiss
their foreheads before letting them turn into dust.
He has no one to smile or cry for him!
Dew on top of graves at dawn
is the only scenic beauty he has.
The dews allay him saying we are better
than the fake tears, you see on the living for dead.
The guard is a contented being
Since he is the only soulful creature amidst the dead souls,
his soul is at peace even before death because
he knows a secret…