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by Rabindranath Tagore — a poem card from Justes Mots

Death is personified as a longed-for bridegroom, with life's sorrows and joys as patient waiting for final union. Tagore's mystical poem employs Hindu devotional imagery to spiritualize mortality as sacred marriage. It serves those seeking transcendent meaning in death or ready for life's final chapter.

O thou the last fulfilment of life, Death, my death, come and whisper to me!

Day after day I have kept watch for thee; for thee have I borne the joys and
pangs of life.

All that I am, that I have, that I hope and all my love have ever flowed
towards thee in depth of secrecy. One final glance from thine eyes and my life
will be ever thine own.…

Themes: sympathy · grief · love · reflection