May 12, 2011. And Once Born We Never Die - from a line by Franz Wright

 

 

And once awake
we never sleep

What a terrible
thought

Our bodies gone
to ash

Our "souls"
or whatever

Candles live
in our tin lanterns

Doomed
as birds

Forever in the jaws
of a fox

But never
eaten.

Comments

[trainwatcher]

Gave me the shivers, Charlie. A terrible thought, indeed.