Those lost
Are never found
To heaven or hell
To flooding sky or rotting earth
They’re given
Up
Gone

An aching truth
Piercing all and sundry
Left here in
Life’s eternal moment
Death’s moment
eternal

And at that moment
When last sighing
Sings
Up-giving the self
And rattling soul
To nothing-
Ness
Another thought
Reocurrs
Ad infinitum

Those found
Never lost
Again

terence j roe 2016