What's It All? What's It All?

 

What's It All?

Looking at the picture

Of a dearly departed 

friend, she once

alive and kicking

Full of possibilities

Now gone

Literally, 

ashes to ashes

What was it all?

Reincarnation,

Rebirths,

Transmigration?

The cycle, 

circulated as

The Wheel of life

Moksha, 

Nirvana

What self-consolations,

Meaningless "truths"

Taught as a given

Masters no longer

Dead, as all

Heaven and hell

From the pulpits,

thundered as  truths, eternal

One name, 

one confession

Determines 

all?

Ego, Supreme

Oh my!

What sayeth the

divine?

What's it all?

What's it all?