<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Am I Dying or Already Dead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I happened to overhear, <br>Which, I realize now, <br>Should not have happened</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I overhead<br>My treating doctor<br>Talking to his doctor friend<br>He was briefing my case to him<br>Probably, expecting his friend <br>To be of some professional help</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From what all transpired<br>I came to know that <br>My days were just counted<br>Ten days at the maximum<br>I would survive with this<br>Life threatening <br>Cancer giant occupying me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The knowledge of the nearing death<br>Turned out to be more painful<br>Than all the pains<br>I suffered from my in-house cancer<br>Killing me each second that passes<br>And from all the lessons <br>I was exposed to all these years</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not move for sometime<br>From where I overheard<br>This ultimate reality</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I managed to reach my bed<br>And started making this note</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would request the world<br>Not to cry over this departing soul<br>I would request my dear ones<br>Not to shed tears over this senseless creature<br>I would request my friends and colleagues<br>Not to make a note of this event<br>It would be nice<br>If I am forgotten<br>Like a passing tree, or a lighting pole<br>Or, for that matter<br>Anything that goes out of sight<br>As you travel past in a train</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am afraid something is pervading me<br>I understand that to be an eternal pain<br>Occupying the entire body<br>Signaling the separation of body and soul</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This pain I know will relieve me<br>Of all pains associated with me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think continuing this note <br>Will be difficult, why, impossible any further<br>I finish this with the wonder<br>Am I dying or already dead</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bashyam+Narayanan">Bashyam Narayanan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350547" data-title="Am I Dying or Already Dead de Bashyam Narayanan" data-description="I happened to overhear, Which, I realize now, Should not have happened I overhead My treating doctor Talking to his doctor friend He was briefing my case to him Probably, expecting his friend To be of some professional help From what all tran..."></div> </div> </div>

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