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