The edge of the earth lives in all of us.

As we age we dangle our feet into the universe

wiggling our toes into nothingness.

Curtains of darkness hold us

restrain us, teach us

to evolve deeper and deeper into the everything

that exists everywhere.

These animal bodies made of flesh and bone

can’t see beyond the edge of the earth

but in death we soar through the curtains

bursting into the reality that lies

just outside our reach in this world…

where death dies and life begins.