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