Famous last words

Famous last words                                                                                           
 
In this realm of dust and flesh, we journey
through various stages of grief and death,
 
hope and birth, dread and lust.
In that other realm, Baba says
 
we’ve never left home, gathered around the hearth
as our Father tells the great adventure
 
made up on the spot, His rapt listeners taken
vicariously through the gamut of human experience.
 
There’s no urgency in the fire’s glow;
no deed to accomplish.  No timeline
 
to follow nor lessons to learn;   
not one true thing to relinquish. 
 
We have only to absorb the tale,
cling to our faith in the Storyteller
 
and in our Self, until those famous last words
we hear: ‘ . . . happily ever after’.
 
O child of God, to believe in the Father
is to believe in the fictitiousness of the tale.