Life's Path

SK Iyer

Life's path
is full of suspense and hidden traps,
without thunder, lightning spears.

On this Good Friday,
a life was caught unaware,
hit by a speeding truck,
leaving behind the mangled body -
a portrayal of amorphous life.
He was my frined's only future,
nurtured for nineteen years.

My friend now lives in the past,
for him, future will never resurrect.

(April 2001)
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