Death just pssed me by

Death came so near and never said hello..I was so happy,I even laughed ..could be crazy to say ths,still..

A bomb tickled my ears..
Today I was walking though the streets picking and buying things that I reconstruct at home to help in any way to make things like a small hand made air cooler working on batteries ..
for we are always without power supply so we have to be creative about it.The heat at these times of the year is so exhausting ..
So we try to accomodate in every possible way..I was buying some electrical things,to help me deal with the stifling heat..
I was so absorbed in thoughts of what to get when I heard a deafening voice its like a meter away from me..
there was lots of commotion around me ..but I so quietly look around to see two people that the bomb have sent to the ground
You may see it funny but I smiled ,I swear I was even happy,its like a circus around me,you never get bored around here..
for some stupendous things happen around the clock and all so sudden..you see people lie to the ground ,some may then
rise up again ,or some maybe helped to their feet,but some unlucky will never rise up again..
I dont know but being so close to death all the while give you such a feelngs you could never understand..
And its a happy feelings in a way,I know the whole picture is so tragic,still in a way its so different from
anything I ever lived or known before ..I ve never walked alongside and so near to death..it gives you a special joy
to know that he (death) was only a few meters away and a few minutes he was here around,he never said hello
he just passed me by,played around a little made a little work,taking a few lives and took leave..
and I was left there alone ..never know what to feel or say..but all along I felt a special joy..I could be crazy
But I was happy ,I know I was happy at the time..then with the so much heat and sun above me
I excused myself from him(death)and said goodbye ,till we meet again,and slowly I left.

Reviews

[Ellen Hammond]

What an awesome, thought provoking, story! Thank God you are here to tell it! Between the smothering heat and the 'circus' around you, I am amazed you still have any sanity left. Humor and the joy of knowing that death passed by so close but did not touch you personally would, I think, give you a sense of euphoria. Thanks for sharing this with us, my friend.

[Barbara Walker]

I can understand your feelings! Something as monumental as death and you aren't even aware it is so close to you and then, it doesn't take you, after all. I would be happy, too.

[Dianah]

Wow, I agree with Ellen. Was this a real situation? It definately sounds like it. I cannot imagine what it is like living in a situation so close to Death. Glad he hasn't taken away your sense of humour.

[Kristin Brecoe]

This is a good piece. It's got me thinking.

Heat really does tend to get to us. I know it simply makes me a biiitt more irritable... To others it's a lot more.

A faint tick, a loathsome tock,
Tickled my senses,
Racing my heart.

The heat settles around me,
Spilling through my pores,
I cringe in discomfort.

I fall to the ground.
With Death on my shoulders,
Cooing sweet love.

My essence fades
Staring off into life,
As I knew it, as I wanted it.

From the blur of my vision,
I catch a glimpse,
Of the lucky one.

Merely scorched by Death.

[idk. it's just whatever came to me..]

[Andrew'sWonderland]

Great Work!! You can feel the emotion!!

[R J Askew]

'...made a little work, taking a few lives...' ach, the drama of the moment ... reading of the oppressive heat lulls us into a semi-torpor from which you then jerk us with a bang, literally, to meet an interesting local character going about his daily routine, much as a council worker might in a Western city ... There is intense drama in this short piece and an almost hilarious sense of gaity among it all. One, I, am used to reading first hand reports or recollections of people from say the first world war, but i have never read something like this. For which we have the internet to thank, and the likes of Charlie. The presence of death close at hand seems to underscore the even closer presence of life in you and us. And makes us realise how readily we seem to become unaware of the life in us. Perhaps there is something to be said for an encounter with death in some odd way.

[Jennifer Mogg]

this is an amazing story you can really feel it

[Cherrie Palmer]

very moving and makes the reader think
as always (as with all your work) I liked it

[Lightfalls]

Wow. I can't imagine, but thank you for sharing this, in a way I can. That has to be such an unreal experience. I am speechless. Death came, but life was there... stronger still.