Know the Antonyms of Life

Today’s English
June 18th, 2017

Life that’s a journey between birth and death is both a bed of roses and a bed of thorns and has enriched English with thousands of words to dress those feelings.  How these opposites can be used in different structures has been experimented here in a poetic way by taking about 30 antonyms:

        The Antonyms of Life

That which blesses you to joy.
Curses you to sorrow.
That whom you loved once.
Is the one you hate now.

Join hands together
Only to part with.
Come near at dawn.
Only to go farther at dusk.

Those who honour you
Dishonour you soon.
Those who give you wings to fly
Cut them soon to make you fall.

Power that crowns you
Crucifies you too.
Love that makes you alive
Leaves you dead too.

Good is not good
If bad is not alive.
Beautiful is not beautiful
If ugly is dead.

Those who are hard working
Turn lazy in government.
Those who are popular
Burn notorious in politics.

Wife who healed the wound
Becomes knife to wound.
Mother who longed for son’s marriage
Condemns son’s wife.

Preach ethics for heaven
Commit sins for hell.
Go surplus with the unnecessary
Fall short of for the necessary.

Lie is the truth.
Evil is the virtue.
Beginning is the end.
End is the beginning.

You get to lose.
You dress to undress.
You forget to remember.
You laugh to mourn.

You earn to spend.
You learn to forget.
You grow to become old.
You live but to die.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
-Oscar Wilde