When We

What will happen when we die?
I don’t know
I don’t know either
Will it be like other deaths,
The same, indifferent, undistinguished
When extinguished?
Will we be whole when we awake
On the other side?
Will we still be we
Or simply one?
Will we remember our unity of separation
The apartness that kept us together
Through all these years?
Or just blend
And no longer be aware we were any different?

When we die we may see
What fractured us
Two of us floating in blank space
No ground beneath our feet
No clothes upon our backs
And in a small globe before us and between:
A memory
The event that gave shape to all our life
Revealed to us at last.
It may seem small then
On the other side
Maybe we will look at it
And ask each other:
We went through so much
For that?
When Life is so much bigger
And the Eternal so much greater
May be
We will wonder
Why that moment terrible
Was able to define us
For so long.

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