Astral Body

Tenderly I held him took him in As though we touched each other skin to skin Dying is what everyone must do Even when it splits the Me from You What we took for granted every day Had its end like any mortal’s play The length of life is just enough to lie It’s not here forever, don’t you cry We are on no plateau but a slope Slight at first, so we don’t see and note Gently we are led to where it ends Beautiful and foolish like ourselves How can we be split when we are one? In deep darkness dies the winter s