Does life extend

Beyond our end?

Such questions occupy the aging brain

A perpetual refrain

Are there expectations ahead

After our body is dead?

Does it really matter

To dwell on such useless patter

After all, no one has yet come back

From a run around life’s track

To bear testimony that he once lived here

And that we have nothing to fear

We let him have his say

And don’t believe him anyway

-W.A.