And Then We Go.

And then we go

when we are no more

all our preferences will be lost

our likes and our dislikes

not that they ever mattered

things that we lived for

and got upset if we missed or did not get.

When we are gone

all the energy is gone, all the thrust, the verve

and all the particles or waves

that made us what we were

assimilate into something that is not there

perhaps less stupid

and less perceptible.

When we are gone

even the meaning of what we were is lost

we do not believe in fairy tales any more

the memory, or the narrative

to which we clang

like drifting immigrants.

Alfred Grech

07/06/2020