No more

It still lingers

Ears  still ring

with fateful  news

Eyes can’t believe

the wetness within

The pyre resounds

only silence

light slighters

in blackness

what matters now

the flame at the wick

has been untimely snubbed

Life is over

You are no more

unTimely

Its sickle swung

Death called

All so soon

All so abrupt

and all so sudden

no time for prayers

no last words uttered

no time for a single thought

Lives simply  ebbed

into nothingness

Ere the nick of time

And as wet winds blew

kiths and kins

family and friends

near and dear

unprepared

numbed and stunned

froze in grief

aghast in despair

to accept the truth

that death calls

sans any warning

May the souls RIP