--- title: Life and Death date: 2007-03-07T16:15:28Z modified: 2007-03-07T16:15:28Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/life-and-death/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 109 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2007-03-07T16:15:28Z tags: - Life Poems --- So he died for his faith. That is fine– More than most of us do. But stay, can you add to that line That he lived for it, too? In [death](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/death-to-all-my-friends.md) he bore witness at last As a martyr to truth. Did his life do the same in the past From the [days](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/better-days-are-coming.md) of his youth? It is easy to die. Men have died For a wish or a whim– From bravado or [passion](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/moonlight-passion.md) or pride. Was it harder for him? But to live: every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt, While his [friends](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/when-friends-let.md) met his conduct with doubt, And the world with contempt– Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside? Then we’ll talk of the [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/life.md) that he led– Never mind how he died. Contributed by Uma