What If

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What if it's not Groundhog Day but Groundhog Life?

Or, when I die, will I simply pass on God's baton to the next living thing?

Will I go to heaven?

Or find Nirvana.

Reincarnation or Renewal?

Or none of these?

Life is real

Or just an illusion.

False memories

And history

Supported by science

And Religion.

We may be Matrix

Or pure dust.

We may live forever,

Or end right here.

Who knows?

Paul Butters

A Metaphor

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A metaphor, the ultimate actor.

Let’s mix it into a Whisky blend.

To rhyme or not to rhyme,

That is the question.

Let’s go for no.

That metaphor –

A fusion of words and meanings.

Compound image.

Subtle synthesis of correlations coalesced.

Marriage of minds.

Beyond comparison.

The poet, weaver of words,

Composing symphonies

Of spoken sounds.

Mixing metaphors:

Chemical brews

Of nectar,

For all to savour

In the theatre

Of the written page.

Paul Butters

I Am

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Some say that when I die

My soul will fly

Into some newborn life

Human or otherwise.

So that could mean that I myself

Am full of older souls

Who once were kings or queens

Knights, paupers, heroes or villains:

Anyone that will have lived

And died already.

But since our living numbers ever expand

It could even be

That I am a new soul

Totally free of the past.

And all this that I write right here,

Could equally apply to YOU

My friend.

I find some comfort in

These radical thoughts,

Though others prefer

Nirvana.

(Freedom from the cycle of life and death).

Paul Butters