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