Life was just what one did, while
One thought on the life to come.
And what if the life to come
Would prove to be just the life
In which one had to do things
To pass that life to the life
Past that? Place the world of birth
On birth on top of the world
Of one chain from worms to God,
And think of God as the end
In the mouth of one sad worm
Who has to eat to the top
From the start. One gets a new
Lease on life each time one turns
To see one is, which is when
One sees that there’s more than one.