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Butch Decatoria
Poems
Dec 2016
Poet Ponders Death
She says she wonders what's it is like.
She says she looks at the stars when she thinks about it,
And then I remember
I know this is a dream,
I know I am else where sleeping
I let it carry me ...
Trying to pay attention
here where it is mostly ghostly
wisps of emotions - wildly feeling,
the ocean within me now
It's connected to everything somehow...
and I can sense that all of this is a lesson
how lucky / how loved / I must be
for this gift -- given a peek
through the curtains... The shroud between...
~~
Suddenly there is only blackness
The flash of loss and thunderous pain
As I find myself
Inside myself, in the blackness of nowhere
Yet / Of my own mind
(But there is no retaliation or karmic return
Of my earthly deeds...so instead...)
I am shown what it must feel like
I can feel Time beginning to speed forward
And at that same instance - slowing down /backward
Splitting into :
I am that moment in that moment
Stretching, my very being, my existence
Slowing backward into the dark-before
Rushing forward feeling life / light / thinning
Years of mine of no consequence
Until I'm split in two
Snap! Clap!
A whistle...
Now, I wake up
I did not get to see what else was beyond
but now I know
There is nothing (at all)
To fear
Of Death...
It is only a matter of time
Until we're split into...
*(Light and dust and supernovae- nebulae)
Written by
Butch Decatoria
47/M/Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
(47/M/Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
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