Death ~ There is No Finishing, No End!
A Thousand Dimensions
Volume 1 2022
I lurk in subterranean places
I am living proof of the cycle of life
There is a beginning
There is an end
But I am proof that the ending
Seemingly permanent,
Is but a parody of Nature’s own
Perennial cycle
You are taught
That when I take you,
Then that is it!
C'est Fini
Es ist Fertig
Consummatum est
It is finished
Not so! Nicht so!
I am cast as the demon.
I am apparently the result of rebellion.
I am cast as a serpent.
The spirit and the soul live in eternity.
There comes a time to depart.
It is painful,
It is diabolical,
The most horrendous acts are perpetrated
That brings about an exit
A departing.
No matter how gentle my arrival,
I leave loved ones’ rent asunder.
It cannot be otherwise.
Those who depart from the peace and comfort
of their beds
have much to thank for,
As another soul jettisons the bed,
As a spirit slips quietly away from beneath the sheets.
I am at the departing.
I am nothing like the portrayal down the ages
God forbid!
27 November 2022
All Rights Reserved
© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
Written 3 April 2015
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Author Notes
Thursday 23 April 2015 12.05 am
Unfinished, the reader will nonetheless pick up the thread of where I take this metaphorically.
Through culture and religion - every culture, every religion - we are given an image of that most elusive and frightening of characters.
Might it be, though, that this departure at the hands of this image, is only a very tiny, tiny part of the whole?
Will I finish it?
If further inspiration comes, yes.
But maybe, that's the whole point.
There is no finishing, no end.
Who knows?
Tuesday 5 October 2021 11:54 pm
My view six years on?
Most definitely, there is no finishing, no end.
Life is cyclical and as predictable as the seasons, perennial.
The Cover Image is Courtesy of Live Art Co Abstract Design via Pinterest with all rights reserved to Live Art Co.
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
