The Remaking

Or… an ending is just a beginning.

Photo by Priscilla Fraire on Unsplash

The soul is eternal; it continues to exist long after the body has perished.

So this is what we've called death
all along, not life's end 
but a straightening out, a journey 
to somewhere else entirely.

This body I've imprisoned myself in
for decades, sags and wrinkles
like an overripe fruit, ready
to slip its conf…