Saturday, May 10, 2008

What happens
When we go
And leave behind us
The tears and fears
Of this world?

Where do we go?

Is there The Man
Sitting and ready?
Or are we just left
To slumber in the dust
And never awake,
The soil that covers us
Never to be moved?

What will The Man say?
What will He do?
Will we go
On His right or on His left?
A sheep or a goat?

All these questions
That cant
And wont be answered,
By all except the one who knows.

Ask him nicely,
For Time will tell.

4 comments:

Brass Baboon said...

I like this.

The 'accidental' rhyming throughout ties stuff together nicely - see "in the dust" and "covers us"
Or "goat" and "the one who knows". Etc.

You've painted a picture of uncertainty "where do we go" and tied in some of the rich Biblical imagery- right/left sheep/goats, back to the central uncertainty.

It progresses forwards, and reaches a conclusion of sorts, in a pithy way.

Scratch said...

I'm not sure what to say to that. What can you say to that besides,
your welcome.

post-it said...

lovely!!

Scratch said...

One more matt. One more...