Death gives no concession <br />Death spares none; <br />None can impress death <br />By being anything <br />To escape its embrace; <br /> <br />Whoever is born <br />is certain to die; <br />Death respects no merit; <br />Skills in writing poetry <br />Artistic talents or ideological commitments <br />Marxist, communist, capitalist, feminist, male chauvinist <br />Terrorist, scientist; <br />None can save oneself from death; <br /> <br />The winner in beauty contests <br />Or delighting participant in fashion pageants, <br />can not seduce death, <br />She has to shed the body enthralling <br />And beauty dissolves into five elements; <br /> <br />Winning games can not win death <br />Being great sportsman <br />Can not make death sportsman like; <br />Death does not care ruler or the ruled <br />Death is inevitable to the emperor, queen or ordinary citizen <br />To democratically elected most popular leader or to any one; <br /> <br />Farmer who grows many crops <br />Or businessman who owns many shops <br />Has to obey death’s call; <br />Death is the greatest leveler <br /> <br />Death gives no concession; <br />Death is equal in operation <br />And spares none; <br />After the game is over <br />The king and the pawn <br />Go into the same box; <br /> <br />Death has no consideration, compassion <br />Does its duty with perfect precision.<br /><br />Varanasi Ramabrahmam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/death-the-greatest-leveler/
