There Is No Death Without Life

There Is No Death Without Life

In the order of nature,

The gazelle gives birth to its young

In the hot summer bush

Amidst predators of the flesh –

Whether lions, cheetahs or hyenas,

In the face of death, a life is born.

Life is in the hand of the woman

Who knows with life, there is death.

Unlike the gazelle which has no choice

Of denying life and death.

A woman now can decide

To provide death with a life,

Or deny death its beginning

For there is no death without life.

The gazelle gives life for death,

So that others can have life and death –

The beginning and the ending

In the order of nature.

Must man and woman deny

Life to avoid death,

And thereby ends the human species?

                                                                                    - Khoo Soo Hay

                                              12.06.2009