Bhisma should have known that life
Is just like a medicine with expiry date
Wise though he was
He never learned to live for himself
His father saved him from getting killed
By his mother
Only to indirectly asked for his youth
He vowed
He’ll remain celibate for his life
For the sake of his father
This vow turned him from Devavrata to Bhisma
After that he just became
A guardian to protect progeny
Of his step brothers, their sons, and their grandsons
His favorite grandson pierced his body with arrows
As he lay dying, he smiled
The pain he had endured in his life found a way
Sealed wounds opened up at last
It’s not only Bhisma
The characters of the epic never escapes their karma
We are told that Bhisma, as Prabhasa, had committed
A sin of stealing Kamdhenu, a wish-fulfilling cow, from
Vashisth, a Brahmin, and to liberate from the curse and
To achieve salvation, he suffered
What a strange thing to knowingly suffer?
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