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FINALE
we are empty now
finally
we are neither this nor that --
undefined
dissolved
it matters not
who came to save or mourn us
or how we lived
or what we did or why
who we chose
or why things fell apart
how hard we tried,
how courageous we were
or how we cowered
we are as free now as we ever were,
freer now
than before we were born
we own nothing
and we owe nothing
we have shed our skin
and given our bones to the earth
there is nothing left
finally
we are neither this nor that --
undefined
dissolved
it matters not
who came to save or mourn us
or how we lived
or what we did or why
who we chose
or why things fell apart
how hard we tried,
how courageous we were
or how we cowered
we are as free now as we ever were,
freer now
than before we were born
we own nothing
and we owe nothing
we have shed our skin
and given our bones to the earth
there is nothing left
Published 28th Feb 2024
Author's Note
Like every other human who has ever lived, I have no idea what happens to us after death. I think probably nothing. Then I think, probably something. I like to think we keep our memories -- that all we go through has meaning. But then, I doubt it.
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28th Feb 2024 2:23pm
28th Feb 2024 7:40pm
Thank you for reading, commenting, and RL. I'm glad you enjoyed it. It started as a series of questions and ended up a series of answers.
28th Feb 2024 2:59pm
28th Feb 2024 7:57pm
Thank you, L. When I was a child in the Catholic church heaven and hell were as real as anything else. They are a wonderful idea -- hopeful. Sometimes I miss them.
1st Mar 2024 8:00am
Dear J,
An ever present thought for me too, as of late. It’s the great unknown isn’t it? I appreciated your take on the freeing/freedom and owing/owning nothing. There is such a sense of liberation in those notions. I’m hanging onto my slice of heaven for now but it is a vast speculation until it happens.
Great writing. H🌷
An ever present thought for me too, as of late. It’s the great unknown isn’t it? I appreciated your take on the freeing/freedom and owing/owning nothing. There is such a sense of liberation in those notions. I’m hanging onto my slice of heaven for now but it is a vast speculation until it happens.
Great writing. H🌷
1st Mar 2024 12:10pm
Thank you, Honoria.
In my heart I hope we "know ourselves" on the other side, lest the joys and misadventures we experience in this life have no meaning.
In my heart I hope we "know ourselves" on the other side, lest the joys and misadventures we experience in this life have no meaning.
