Life After Death

Is there life after death?
Anything left after
Their last breath?
Mesmerized, hypnotised
Dazed, crazed
Dealing with feelings
You didn’t know
You could feel
How could reality
Seem so surreal?
There’s now nothing
To separate fiction
From non
How does the rest of the world
Keep going on?
Something’s missing
Something’s gone
Irreplaceable, irretrievable
And with that something,
Some of you
Was lost too.

The Earth is still spinning
The moon waxes and wanes
As does your pain
The sun continues to rise
Each morning, as do you
Even though
You don’t want to
On the outside
Everything remains the same
But inside
You feel disconnected
And content to stay that way
Day after day
Unnumbing would be
Coming to grips with,
Accepting what you
Feel like rejecting

You’re still expecting
That pinch to wake you
From this nightmare
You fear to feel again
You can’t bear the strain
You’re under from the pain
It’s easier
To deny, to defy
That to identify
“It’ll be soon,
It won’t be long,
Til I can breathe again,
Til the weight
On my chest is gone”
You tell yourself
You have to have hope
You have to believe
Without it,
There would be
No reprieve
From the grief.
Yes, he is gone
And yes, it does seem wrong
- His stay wasn’t very long –
But hold on
There is still life after death,
You still have breath
Make the most
Of what you have left!
Life lived goes fast
And you never know
When it’s going to
Be your last.