They aren’t dead
but deplorably
they aren’t
alive either.
Distressed,
trodden, and
completely flattened
by the uncertain
volcanic eruptions
of their own life,
they are lying
on the towers
of silence
with their stomachs
open to the sky
waiting for the vultures
to come and munch
the remaining them
little by little
pieces by pieces
as the corrosion
of the moment
that erodes
the gate
of the eternity
tick….tock….
tick….tock….
with their beaks.

Copyright 2006 Bhuwan Thapaliya



*Towers of silence:

The Towers of Silence (also dakhma or dokhma) are Zoroastrian funerary towers, the majority of which are located in Mumbai, India, belonging to Parsi Zoroastrians, and in Yazd and Kerman, Iran, belonging to the Iranian Zoroastrians.

Zoroastrians consider the dead body to be unclean, and their religion prohibits allowing corpses to pollute the pure elements of earth and fire. Corpses are therefore placed atop the Towers of Silence for their flesh to be consumed by vultures. Once the bones have been bleached by the sun and wind, they are thrown into the ossuary pit at the center of the tower.

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