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