Life Or Death Eternity
Standing tall in heaven, beyond the walls of eternity;
Up placement to a new realm of a physical reality;
Rebirthed to life to live on this stone, made of earth;
Statue of premise promised to envelop;
Rebirthed now an embryo;
Curled up laying there with my eyes closed;
Heat, beating lungs, breathing;
Blood flowing through my veins;
Come out of my mother's womb (room);
Cut the cord out of the sack;
No longer knowing where I am at;
Eyes still closed don't wanna see what I look like;
But if you look at me the difference between;
I'm alive breathing in air heart beating I'm not dead;
Now older matured a teen, an adult;
Laying in the bed, eyes are closed;
(wide open-shut?)
Laying there horizontal;
How do you know I'm not dead;
Lived a long life been in and out;
Had ups and downs, never to sickly always had crumbs;
Didn't have to worry, bout' nothing;
Always had at lease something's;
Now I've released the spirit of the ghost;
Seems I didn't have a choice, Gone on in;
You see me now laid out in a new suit in a coffin;
You don't know where I am going;
But I tell you one thing here I lay, there;
Lungs not breathing, blood not flowing through my veins;
Well eyes still shut you said you loved me but,
Now I think now I'm dead
This is mankind's, life or death eternity;
Written by James Edward Lee July 6 2015(c)
( For 2015 book UNO's Poetry to Bridge Generations
University of Nebraska at Omaha )
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