{"id":933,"date":"2019-12-04T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=933"},"modified":"2020-05-12T03:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T07:44:03","slug":"grandpas-death-a-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/grandpas-death-a-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa’s death \u2014 a meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On the morning of the last day,
he woke up and saw death
blocking the doorway.
They wrestled each other
to the bedroom floor,
where my frail, fearless grandfather
was eventually defeated,
in patch of sunlight
on the marble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He left in a hurry, my grandpa,
taking nothing with him
and leaving behind no last words.
He had just enough breath left
to say goodbye
but no one was there.
We thought
that death would come
in the night,
like all the thieves do,
but death crawled in
in the morning
and we weren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the morning of the last day,he woke up and saw deathblocking the doorway.They wrestled each otherto the bedroom floor,where my frail, fearless grandfatherwas eventually defeated,in patch of sunlighton the marble. He left in a hurry, my grandpa,taking nothing with himand leaving behind no last words.He had just enough breath leftto say goodbyebut no one … <\/p>\n

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