Borderlands

What marks one life’s 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?
Are evil deeds deducted,
In between banalities ignored.
Perhaps simple passages
Across a roundelay of lives,
Incarnated, one after the other,
A rationale for glimpses
We have of other times,
Of similarly unclear answers
About life, love, loneliness,
Heaven, hell, purgatory
Or, nothing whatsoever.