The Thing About Dying - Mildred Tremblay

[Lawrence Robinson]

The Thing About Dying

The thing about dying is
I won't get over it.
I can't say, well
that sure taught me a lesson--
let's go home and have a drink.
Impossible to believe
in my own ending.
I'll continue on somewhere, find myself
in the barren halls of Bardo
waiting for a spare embryo,
eager to curl up inside some woman's belly,
ready for the next round of traumas.
My turn for famine. Or torture.
Payback for those things I did to my sister.
I really don't think I'll come back as a snail
or a flea, I'm almost sure
I've got that sort of thing behind me.
But suppose it really is absolute
darkness descending and nothing
to follow. Not even silence.
(Silence needs someone to notice it.)
Never to see the high-flying blue
and white sky again.
Or the sea.
The sea.
That powerful, wide-winged old woman.
every time I look, she's there where I left her.
When I die, I doubt
she will stay on very long without me.
The waves rolling in
without my praise to assist them.
No, if there's nothing
after I die, if it really is the end,
I'll have to take the sea with me when I leave.
Forgive me.
	- Mildred Tremblay
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