Fear of death

Terry Teza 1966 (Yangon)



It is the greatest fear
That is known.
We don't know what it is,
Thus, it is the fear of unknown.

For one who seek the Truth,
Ego has to die
before the body die.
Before he enter
the formless infinite ,
the ego tremble in fear.
For all that he's known
are slipping away
Like sand through the fingers.

But it is not possible to go back,
for he has peeled the layers of personality like an onion and
Realized there is no 'I' in the centre.

What he has realized,
He can't make it unrealized.

With the leap of faith in the Lord,
Let the self drop
into the abyss that await.
For one has to lose oneself,
To be the awaken Self.

Thou shall not fear through the valley of the shadow of death.
Go, Go and Go beyond, transcend to the Awakening of Truth!

About this poem

This poem is about spiritual awakening through the death of ego.

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Submitted on April 30, 2024

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Scheme ABXB CDDEXABXX XXE FF XXXGG XC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 763
Words 174
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 9, 3, 2, 5, 2

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