The Joke
What if your life was a hoax,
that every single moment of it
was a trick of the mind?
On that last breath maybe,
you get a slight inkling,
you feel something is not quite right,
not realistic.
Your past rolls up like a carpet,
the future, is an unborn child laughing at you.
What to do? You are dead already.
Some Almighty Something shows up,
reveals to you that,
what you thought was a life,
was really
just a blink of an infinite eye.
You begin to realize, but not right away,
that time does not exist now.
What? Yes, no time.
You ask that big; really big,
awesome Something’ –
“For God’s sake why?”
It says – “Well why not,
can you think of anything better to do?”
Eventually, you get it.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2024
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