Beyond the “End”
Richard
CLF member, incarcerated in NY
Do you believe in heaven?
Then there is no end.
Do you believe in hell?
Then there is no end.
Do you believe in spirit?
Then there is no end.
Will man destroy
what God has wrought?
Maybe.
You’d think we’d learn
That we don’t really count
in the grand scheme of things.
The scheme put in place
millions of years ago,
the scheme that will end
millions of years from now.
Our place here and now is but an eye-blink,
but we are here.
We are all part of the scheme.
After all —
We helped create it
and what we do
between beginning and end
is entirely up to us.
Endings
RICHARD
CLF member, incarcerated in NY
Written in response to “End” by Charlie, May 2020
All things end.
It’s people who refuse
to accept it.
We hold on with a death grip to avoid the inevitable.
Nature knows that to live all must also die,
to make room.
So is it really the “end”?
The sun still shines,
The rain still falls,
Grass and flowers and trees still grow.
And we all do what we can
in the time we’ve been given To do the best we can
To make our being here worthwhile
Before our “end.”
