Vitam Aut Mortem

Is this life we live,

the life we know,

really death

from another plane

Is the hurt we suffer,

and the struggle we bear,

the result

of another realm

Are the visions we see,

and the insights unnamed,

but a window

into that world

Is what we call life,

what they call death,

with its reckoning

left untold

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: April, 2020)