It's my coffin

The slow of process of dying...

Easy, easy

Handle with care

It’s my coffin,

Easy, easy

I am gonna lay there

Here, in my coffin.

 

I sat on the chair

I have been idle for too long,

The Lid of a coffin ajar

This is where we belong.

I lit a cigarette

Wearily going through the bills due,

Poor health and hefty debt

Happy that I am not yet sued.

Cracked my wire glasses

I couldn't read anymore,

My sight harasses

People have stopped knockin' on my door.

 

Now old and gray

I abandoned god,

Neither do I pray

By now, your minds have trod.

Bury me

Bury my belief,

Under the Mahogany tree

Bury mine & thy grief. 

Reviews

[Megha]

wow... simply awesome... heart touching...

[Mayank]

Thank you Megha!

[Patricia]

wow- it is so emotional...exhaustion, resignation or acceptance, I feel resignation but that is me projecting for sure, loneliness or again acceptance, I feel loneliness but that may be me projecting again. This is a wonderful piece of art....love the stanza breaks, the grammar was excellent, very powerful. Love it!

[Mayank]

Thank you so much Patricia!

[Patricia]

You are very welcome - it was my pleasure :)

[uNmAsKeD-dEluSiOns]

I loved this. I actually loved the sadness and eerie feeling of it and the mystery as I read every line. I liked how you repeated some words at the beginning. I also liked your word choice. I think you really nailed it because I like how it wasn't too descriptive and it let the reader think a little for themselves and let them get their own feeling from it yet because of that I feel like it was really vivid at least as I imagined it in my mind. Good meaning and write!

[Mayank]

Thank you for kind words!

[Kajal Sharma]

great job...but may I ask why is it so negative ??

[Mayank]

Thanks Kajal for stopping by. The wisdom of the old man is very difficult to describe and especially when every clock tick brings him closer to death, the mind trapped in cobweb and here, see the man who got his own coffin, he ain't afraid and more than himself he wants to bury all his grief...

[Kajal Sharma]

okay that is very deep

[Brook]

This touched me on a personal level, because there's recently been a death close to me. Very beautifully written though, great job.

[Mayank]

Hey Brook, thank you for stopping by and kind words. I had near death experience few months back and from then my point of view towards death is completely change.

[Pryde Foltz]

Bury me
Bury my belief,
Under the Mahogany tree
Bury mine & thy grief.

A blues song in the making here, I think. Awesome stuff:)

[Mayank]

Thanks Pryde, no doubt Blues is my fav genre....

[Gummy.G]

"Bury mine & thy grief"
The words really impact you and the writer. Thank you

[Mayank]

Thanks Gummy!

[Sindu]

That's paints a vivid picture of a tired soul in this crazy life! Peace is seen in different ways.. Some have it when they have nothing left to do with anything. Great write!

[Mayank]

Thank you Sindhu!

[MomzillaNC]

Well penned lines of a wasting life, self-fulfilling prophecies of nothing.

It's a sad state in which so many seem to be living, isn't it? They search for meaning in all the wrong things… ask all the wrong questions in their lives. Looking to God for wealth and power, things He cares nothing for; all He really cares for is that we have what we need and are in right-relationship with Him. That means taking ourselves out of the me and living for Him and for the love He values: love of all. And, when they don't find the ego-centric me-me-me answers, they turn from God because they've emptied themselves in pursuit of nothing real, tried to fill the void with hard-edged, poisoning THINGS that can never give back what folks have given up in their endless grasping for more… and more… and more… for what, ultimately, is only emptiness.

But, you know what I think? I don't think it matters if you don't believe in God. He believes in you. His Grace and Mercy are always held out for us. I think He's waiting for us to just turn our mind's eye and see Him in us.

So much of the world is lost in dogma, they've blinded themselves to Him. He's not in their dogma. Religion isn't Faith… isn't God. Religion is man's attempt to define the indefinable. And dogma is the spiked club man uses to enforce his own will onto the world, to try to bend God to to his own power.

[Mayank]

Thank you so much for stopping by and reviewing this, everyone have their own concept of God and I think nobody should change or coax others to believe in better god. The human find God in themselves, in some or other spirit when the time comes. I follow one rule, do good and don't expect anything in return. We are Humans and we are here to follow the Humanity, unfortunately, there are many power greedy and so called saintly people trying hard to change our fundamentals. The day one come across the truth it goes buried with them...

[MomzillaNC]

You're welcome.

Those people have given up God for their dogma. It's very sad. No one ever came to true Faith by force. What ever we may choose to believe must be in our own souls.

[Rene Salinas]

The point were faith ends as the result in our life no loger seems to make any relation to a from of divinity and we are pushed back to the brink of the question. If divinity is supposed to be good why is all this stuff happening to me? As the question might never be answered we resort to what we know. Ashes to ahses , dust to dust. Unavoidable really so might as well make my coffin the office and work from there as it will save time and money.

There is humour in that view.

Thankyou

[Mayank]

Hahaha! The idea came to while reading The Heroin Diary by Nikki Sixx he bought coffin for himself and kept drugs there. I was thinking what if someone grows old and design coffin of his own choice to eventually rest his bones.... I will quote my favorite singer here 'Ash to ash
Dust to dust
Fade to black' - James Hetfield.

[Rene Salinas]

Plus still the money saving mate ! You can even get free wi - fi......

[Mayank]

Oh yeah, the only reason I hate my workplace because they haven't given us WiFi access. Argghh....

[Rene Salinas]

Think of all the catchy names instead of Openzone you could envision Welcome to the GraveZone.... Bandwidth from beneath , fibre from the underground...... This has potential.

[Mayank]

Of course, a lot... sounds heavy as well :p