Buried today
Buried today “Buried Today” is a quiet, deeply personal reflection on the day a son buries his father. Through restrained grief and memory, the writer confronts loss, family duty, and the sudden emptiness left by a man who once seemed permanent — revealing how death alters the living as profoundly as it claims the dead. Denzil Jayasinghe 5 min read · Just now N ot a neighbour. Not a friend whose passing one acknowledges with a muted call and then files away. My father. There is something indecent about writing the word. It feels abrupt, like the closing of a wooden lid. I had always believed — without daring to examine the belief — that he would live forever . Not immortal in any grand sense, but present. Seated in his chair. Listening. Waiting for the world to pass by and report itself to him in bulletins and static. I left him young — too young to understand the arithmetic of time. I had barely completed my apprenticeship in being a son when I decided to become a man elsewhere. In my...