Leaving home for school is a death. <br />Leaving school for service is a death. <br />Retiring from service is a death. <br />Every parting is a death. <br />Every meeting is a birth <br />Every death leads you to a birth. <br />Every birth leads thus to a death. <br />As many entrances as there are exits, <br />Till the arrival of corporal death, <br />Beyond which we have no evidence <br />17.08.2007<br /><br />Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-mourn-the-death/