BEFORE AND AFTER


 There was a time when I was not here,



 No thoughts, no name or Identity were mine.



 I had no pain or sorrow, not a thing for me 
 To know,


 Where was I before I became me, somewhere 
 Waiting.


 A time will come when I am no longer here, will 
 I have thoughts,


 A name remembered, my Identity will not be this 
 Body or mind.


 Again there will be no pain or sorrow, I will be
 Somewhere else,


 Before and after, heaven bound, where was I before 
 My first sound.

                 Keith Garrett