AN ELDERLY MAN ASKED ABOUT DEATH AND ME

An elderly man asked me what happen to me when I died

What I believed in , did I believe in life after death

I'd already told , explained to him I wrote poetry , that I would live fore ever

That I am an agnostic humanist , being such helped to ease the disappointments

That such philosophy brings

My believe was in humanity his and mine

That I would never die , that my work was my life , if only one

Read a work of mine , then I would be once more be a live

I'd live on with a words I had spoken , may be not by name

That I don't believe Shakespeare is dead , he lives on in work

Shakespeare's spirit lives on in others

But something I had said remembered and quoted from time to time

A smile I gave a way a hug a hand I shook , a cheek I stroked

By yes a cares or two , oh all right I crassest a few in my life

What we do be that good or bad lives on affter mortality tacks us

And we therefore I will have immortality

I sadly think he did not hear a single word I had said

As he was not really listening to me

Ken D Williams

The Dyslexic Writer





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Written on 2012-06-22 at 21:45

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