WHAT IF



In the story of life man has not a complete sentence
Yet the human race to its final chapter without complete sentience
One race having many faces may explain the incoherence
Yet if the many faces were to be of one race, would they be in coherence?
Be universal not apart as the uni versus all
A unit verse is still a part of the universal

Are we truly in a void?
Is it actuality we just avoid?
The essence of the incense
Defuse incense of a mind not in sense
Could I be of an insane mind or I could be in sane thought?
Am I a human being or a human being taught?

To know the extent of the extant is that to foresee its demise?
If the extant were to know its extent is its future compromised?
What is valued in some, what is its portend?
What is valued in sum, is it what poor tend?
In the material is where to find the immaterial
Is it ever real without transcendence through the ethereal?

Is it 'Hell' to be paralyzed in paradise?
Or to be in 'Heaven' to fear the one you idolize?
If what makes up our existence dissipates into the universe?
Are thoughts of immortality and reincarnation contra verse?
If in belief you pursue life after death, is death after lives?
If the more I tell lies do I become immortalised in a mortals eyes?

13/11/19
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Submitted by Hubbsify on November 13, 2019

Modified by Hubbsify on November 12, 2021

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Scheme AAAAXB CCDDEE FXGGBB XFHHXF
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,248
Words 261
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6

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