Introduction Perhaps I was not yet in my teens when I was filled with a very dark fear. This fear, far from soon disappearing, only became more entrenched as time went by. Some events in my life succeeded in further solidifying it. At this time, I was just too scared to share my condition with anyone, including my parents. And so, I kept my fear to myself even as it continued to mount. Things remained so for many years, with me nursing my hidden fear by myself. It was only

“I am in you, you are in Me, A strange way for anyone to be!”

Oh, My Lord, what all You did, Deeds both ‘noble’ and ‘sordid’, Through this body-mind ‘I’ I call, Ah, My Lord, You did them all!

A few years more, at the most, For me to ‘give up the ghost’. The moment will soon come by When in their eyes I will die, But maybe it’s all a mere tale, That’s told ourselves to regale, And death’s just a change of dress, Nothing more, and nothing less, Simply this body that we shed When they say we are dead, And then, to Earth we return, Being given here another turn, Or we go to a heaven or hell, To spend a long or short spell, Or into God’s arms we race, And there our sel