Never Lasting Life Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

Varied are those moments of life,
someone hopes to laugh,
while someone sits to cry;
someone hopes to love and wed,
someone dies and goes to rest;
life in all its wonderment
relinquishes the mystery
embedded in a shell
to unravel it and clutch it
without dread or repulse
but with innumerable options
one can select or discard;
and as the trailer of life unfolds reality
afflictions, heartbreaks, verdicts and victories,
hurdle up and down without respite;
life in all its splendor falters
when after years of living together
one has to depart from this universe-
for that is what makes us to sigh
as all that is achieved, attained, acquired,
loses its luster, loses its worth, loses it breath
unto just one grasp of death.