In The Middle

IN THE MIDDLE In the middle of the unending darkness that stretches on beyond forever In the middle of the vast nowhere whose name has no shadow and no space In the middle of all the generations whose anonymous past will be complemented by their overextended futures, In the middle of the mass of nameless mankind featureless In the middle of all that is and ever has been In the middle of what was and will be always forever not In the middle In one small moment whose end is unpredictable While the light still shines on the green green world And the love and joy in the faces and hearts we care for still breathe In the middle of the moment before consciousness is lost forever Somewhere nowhere who knows where how In the middle of all we are and will never be now In the now of this life I write these lines for all of us Passing dreams Beautiful great souls True human beings Better than me and you And only me and you For all of us In the middle Before the lights go out And the endless darkness Is silence and breathlessness And nothing whatever real We can feel or be.