What the Dead Owe the Living

The dead have obligations,

but some are rebellious

or recalcitrant

or simply confused about their new role

in the element in which they

(suddenly awakened)

find themselves.

 

Those of us who expected them to be responsible,

to continue the role they played when alive,

are struck dumb to discover their total absence.

We thought we would find them

(in our dreams, perhaps)

and be comforted

even by their non-corporeal presence.

But no.

Their stark absence startles us

into greater grief than we can bear.

 

 

 

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