Borderlands

What marks the border between one life and another
Does a custom’s house check shipments
Does an agent review passport stamps
Does a ferryman collect coins
Does a saint count good deeds
Does a saint deduct evil deeds
Ignore the banalities in between
Perhaps a simple passage
To a roundelay of lives
Incarnated one after another
A rationale for glimpses
We have of other times
With equally diverse answers
About life love loneliness
Heaven hell purgatory
Or nothing whatsoever