Darkness engulfed the entire room,
Chilling wind flew in from the window.
A woman lying on the bed,
Gasping for breath.

Blood flowed down
From a hole in her stomach.
Her eyes revealed
The pain was too great to survive.

As she struggled,
And coughed blood from her mouth,
A white glow suddenly appeared before her.
A man in white robes.

He extended a hand to her.
Without thinking, she reached out at it.
It was her time to move on,
Let go off the pain.

She stood up,
Ready to walk away with the man.
Looking back she took one last look at her corpse,
That she had left behind.

She stood there
Looking at it for a minute.
Then looked away,
And vanished into thin air.

-Baisakhi Bhattacharya
<6th November, 2016>