Next Life

Do you ever wonder

whether there is more to this,

another life

which we cannot easily dismiss.

Where worries and sorrows

have no tomorrows

and where we are reunited

with the ones we have lost

and where no one

ever has to count the cost.

Or do you think

that this is it

no promised land which is sunlit,

just eternal darkness

and nothingness

after we are lower in the ground

and sent into the abyss.