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I have read that your loved ones greet you

at the end-of-life tunnel

You see their silhouettes against a glorious light

They welcome your spirit with love

once it’s shed the body, a discarded husk

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I have wondered how–if I am met

by my mother’s spirit–

how she could also reincarnate again.

Can souls be in a body and the afterlife, too?

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I have felt the rising pulse of awe

at the various and myriad forms of Creation

that burst from a pinpoint of light

and one single thought: to become

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I have been in, and also out

I have risen in the violet flame

I have heard your moon song

I have sung you across the river