What is after after? What is no being after being?
Sleeping without dreams?
Does closing your eyes approximate?
No sight, no breath, no smell,no touch, no sound.
No one.

What will be the revelation? Sheer deprivation?
Or realization of destruction and recreation?
Who knows? Certainly not I.
Will it be painful? Will it be gainful?

Is the ride over? Should I have bought the all day pass?
Does the journey go on with a change of transportation, new embarkments, new deportations?
“End of the line. Everyone please exit to the rear.”
“Please make way for the new beginnining!”

Perhaps we were better off when we thought the world was square.
At least we could come to the edge and jump off into nothingness there.
Bouncing off the planets and stars and infinity all,
Becoming a never-ending pinball.

09/23/2007

Posted on 09/24/2007
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