Wednesday, September 2, 2009

FATHER


My father passed away yesterday two hours after I posted my previous post. He used to drink too much. Alcohol had destroyed his brain, and in the last couple of years he had problems with short term memory. Booze crushes one's willpower and corrupts the mind. Before that he was one of the finest intellectuals in my country. Up until the end he remained what he had always been - a poet. He kept writing even though he could hardly hold the pen, and his verses were illegible. He died of ulcer hemorrhage that came out of the blue.
But this is just Death's ways - out of the blue.

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