Upon Death<\/p>\n
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On 24th<\/sup> December my father died.<\/p>\n We were expecting his death<\/p>\n But on the day he took his leave<\/p>\n He had his breakfast, and soup<\/p>\n for supper, went to the toilet by himself.<\/p>\n In the evening he was uncomfortable<\/p>\n The doctor came and wanted him<\/p>\n To be admitted to hospital<\/p>\n ‘You can’t do that<\/p>\n He needs to stay with his family’<\/p>\n And he stayed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My brother and I stayed by his side<\/p>\n And read the Bhagvad Geeta to him<\/p>\n Don’t know if he listened or understood<\/p>\n Early morning \u2013 he just stopped breathing<\/p>\n We waited for his breath to resume<\/p>\n But it never did \u2013 such is the nature of death.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My two children came to take Nana’s leave<\/p>\n My son brought him his ‘glows in the dark’ toy<\/p>\n Put it on his pillow and kissed him.<\/p>\n My daughter brought her Rag doll<\/p>\n Florence, and laid her tenderly on his side \u2013<\/p>\n This is to keep him company as<\/p>\n He is going a long, long way away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We kissed him one by one and<\/p>\n said our Goodbyes after all<\/p>\n Death is a part of life<\/p>\n It comes to us all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n —————<\/p>\n Sundar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upon Death On 24th December my father died. We were expecting his death But on the day he took his leave He had his breakfast, and soup for supper, went to the toilet by himself. In the evening he was uncomfortable The doctor came…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103852,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084\/revisions\/103852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}