heaven forbids so much of life
provides no answers beyond
dictum to assuage the absence
which looms ahead in the dark
there is so little of us beyond
memory to fill the absence
of certainty with a shadowy dark
as if our thoughts were our life
instead of a clotting absence
we use to staunch the dark
from opening like flowers into a life
which flows through us and beyond
into the constant unfolding dark
which could become a joyous life
despite our fear of what lies beyond
our insignificant absence
the dark absence beyond life
a life beyond absence’s dark
(June 17, 2015)
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