I do not pretend, to know the truth,
Anymore than you…or the sun…or the moon,
Proving nothing short of ignorance otherwise.
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What I do know, is that death is inevitable;
Whether life be a second, a minute or decades,
Of this I am certain.
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Just as I am certain of my origin;
Beyond progeny…beyond paternity,
My essence existed before that of this earthly vessel,
And will certainly continue beyond it’s worldly demise,
Our human science has assured.
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I am, however steeped in uncertainty,
Uncertain of what lay in wait after this finite adventure.
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Will I be swallowed by consuming blackness,
Drifting endlessly…disjointedly into nothingness?
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Will I be welcomed at Heaven’s pearled gates,
Greeted with open arms into a paradise?
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Maybe Hell hath set it’s sights on my mortal soul,
Repaying me for the sinful life I’ve led?
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Or will my soul join with others
To live once again,
In the vessel of another of the newly-born?
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These all, are questions of faith,
Your faith…my faith,
Questions for which I have no answers.
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After a lifetime of curious inquiry,
I hold no greater insight into the afterlife,
Than were so endowed in me at my birth.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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