Ashes to Ashes

 

 

                         What was once a human form

                         Resides in this receptacle

                         Ashes to ashes

                         No communication there

                         Better the cold stone

                         And the earth beneath

                         Where the bones can lay

                         Neatly disposed

                         awaiting the second coming

 

 

                         Was it arranged pre-birth

                         You shall come on this Earth

                         Just once

                         Or mission aborted?

                         There is no divine grace

                         Interrupts this continuity

                         Only a great equality

                         So away with the after life

                         Remember the corollary

                         Dust to dust

 

 

                         On second thought

                         The illusion is better

                         We live in hope

                         It is the only currency

 

 

 

                                                  Jack Mashman

                                                  1987