QUESTIONS

Where do the dead go? 

I hear stories of the Afterlife

Is it a truety or does life end in the hole?

All life's sojourn end with the shutting of the eye

All that is left is a story

And the vibrant life becomes a memory.

Oblivion is man's greatest fear 

We do not want to leave this world we know for the one we do not know

The latter may be better perhaps

But those who have been cannot be back to tell us

Would the thought of death be better to bear 

If we knew really what lies thereafter?

Where is heaven?

Where is hell?

Enough with the description of high above and low below

Enough with the stories of stately glory and languished sorrow

What is their actual state?

How plausible are the stories in the Book?

Do not kneel to redeem my soul when you ponder this

I am far from lost

I need to know.

True knowledge is hidden from man

So that he cannot know what has been from the beginning to the end

True knowledge comes in death 

What use is it then if it cannot help those living?

Nothing makes meaning

All meaning is lost

Knowledge is nothing 

We live seeking it; it eludes us

We die hoarding it.

Is seeking answers then a waste?

Would our dead loved ones

When they converge together 

Still think themselves family?

Do they have thoughts?

What thoughts do they have of the living?

Do they have powers?

Or are they just fallen embers?

We grapple for knowledge over our existence 

What we cannot know we speculate 

The answers lead to more questions

And leave the mind much aggrieved with confusions 

Why are we brought here so 

If this is how we go?