A Dead Man Who Never Had a Death Experience
a man who never had a death experience is dead
and laying in a casket without experience of the death
is that why he looks so awkward?
is it because he is experiencing an experience
that, actually, is not an experience but a reality?
if that’s not the reason for his mismatching death,
then, why is his coffin shrouded in so many question marks?
he doesn’t say a word,
he doesn’t even try to open his eyes;
no reason indeed for a dead man to open his eyes,
the man who abandoned the world assuredly has nothing to talk about
to the world;
a room full of heavily sunken air
the tears well out from the eyes of men looking at the dead,
only the sound of the watchers’ heart-beats stir up to rise the ripples
in the air
a heart floating on the ripples picks a question mark
drifting by a catafalque hesitantly and asked:
“why did you die?”
as soon as the heart questioned
Unmoved Mover flicked its finger,
and as finger flicked a burnt-out metro from the sky
passes over the world beyond death and draws an indiscernible
picture onto the cave wall; the picture, a shadow of a ghost,
the reincarnated death.
Copyright © Su Ben | Year Posted 2015
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