You know that old prayer "if I should die before I wake", right?
Well it happened to me, just last night.
I woke up this morning and found myself dead.
Not a mark on my body nor a pain in my head.
My heart and my lungs stopped pumping
But in my head the thoughts kept jumping.
It was so different from what I had foreseen.
Until it happens you won't know what I mean.
I tried to sit up. My body wouldn't comply.
Then as I gave up I was falling through the sky.
I could see the ground below rushing up to swallow me
Darkness took over all I could see.
Then stillness, an eerie glow from the distance.
Creeping closer, moving in with persistence.
I heard a voice, one voice for many beings
Speaking foreign tongues about my life and things.
A head reached out for mind and pulled me down.
I was under water and thought I would drown.
But I didn't feel wetness, and when the fire came
It engulfed my body yet I could feel no flame.
A door opened to a different place
Where we can leave without a trace.
Know the nature of these realms well
Death is heaven and life is hell.