Restitution
Too often we say the words together:
after-life
as if they denote some place,
what we really mean is
life-after-life:
a conceptual weakness.
For the atheist
there is just this:
after life
molecules
dirt
blood flowing back
into the mix
a perpetual awakening
from the dream of life;
one great long yawn
from this galaxy of cells.
Simon Leake
