A Hurried Run

Had a hurried run today 

going from one place to another

all enquiries of death

from a babe a year old

then a girl twenty-five years

finally a ripe old man  91-year-old

the little one  came to the earth

for what no one knows

while the adult having to live

many more years had died  premature

but the old man crossing the limit

having lived the fullest extent

having stayed very much over

breathed his last finally after waiting long

having suffered  long solitude and weakness

The three give way to the schedules

that belie explanations  and reasons

passing away  in  days of the week

emphasizing the impermanence

and the transitory effect of life