The Egg
When you die the earth with break like an egg
and all of its reality will spill out.
Death will shatter every shell
you had constructed around you.
Your physicality will be gobbled up by mind fish.
That mind you thought was yours alone
was always bigger than your wildest dreams,
greater than any thought you had about God.
Mind is like that small goldfish
you brought home once in a glass jar
thinking it to be a wonder to be understood
but 'understanding' was never the point,
only the 'wonder' mattered.
When your bodily clock stops;
what we may now name as God
will carry you in your own glass jar for a while
before cracking that open also.
Time, place, and distance
will be gobbled up by mind fish
and you will be out of your egg forever.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2021
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