The ends beginning by: Nicholas Sheehan



The coldness of the tumb-engulfs my every cell.
My soul now reaches out for what I cannot tell.

My death came on so suddenly-awareness was so brief. Now emptiness and loss are taken as a thief.

I reach for new beginnings but know not where to search.  I feel alone and cold, my soul looks for a perch.

No one has found the key to unlock the stage beyond.  Too soon the energy, locked inside is gone.

I feel new energy, engulfing my new frame.  A bright and new warmness, I feel a need to tame.

I see a bright light, far off, I'm compelled to reach.  Perhaps the light of God, and angels that will teach,

For now, to find out for myself, just where we all will go.  The reasons that I lived and died, and how we all must grow.

About this poem

I lost two son's in laws within two weeks of each other. This inspired me to think about what could happen after we leave our physical and reach for the spiritual realm. The following is my consensus of that end and beginning.

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Written on July 06, 2021

Submitted by nicholass.78787 on October 03, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AA X X X X X X
Characters 718
Words 143
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Nicholas Sheehan

Married with children, and grandchildren. My poetry seems like automatic writing. I seem to feel the first line and the rest unfolds in front of me, a little tweeking and whalla, it's finished. more…

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