Here lies one who bore Life’s joys and pains, <br />Failures and successes equally or tried to; <br /> <br />Who is grateful for his life, wife Tilaka, daughter Joti, <br />Parents and relatives, friends and colleagues, <br />Neighbors and pretty young things, and those who thought <br />Of themselves as his enemies or victims: <br /> <br />For literature, music, painting, and sculpture, <br />Nature in her boundless beauty and variety; <br /> <br />The Sun, the differently-shaped clouds and the blue sky <br />During the day, and the lovely dark night, studded <br />With Sirius, Canopus, Orion, or the other constellations <br />Or planet Jupiter or Venus etc, and the growing Moon: <br /> <br />And the awareness to look within, <br />And see behind the chaos and darkness <br />The settling down to the bare emptiness <br />Called Soul, or Bramhan.<br /><br />Daniel Trevelyn Joseph<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/epitaph-2008/
