From the day we are born …
we are all destined to become
discarnate entities, incorporeal spirits

at least that’s what
NDE accounts, my beliefs
and spiritual experiences
suggest to me

a human today
like a ghost tomorrow

will some of us
hang around
and haunt a particular place

or will we all go to the Light
or have what the Hindus
call a maha samadhi

and become one with the universe
living in the Sat Chit Ananda
the eternal bliss consciousness?

or, maybe we won’t get beyond the grave
the funeral pyre or the cremation oven

and be obliterated into nothingness

I could handle that and so could you
there wouldn’t be
any you’s or me’s
to fret and worry about it.

Bob Boyd