One world at a time

More Nora Gallagher.  This time from Things Seen and Unseen.  There is plenty to do, to contemplate, to figure out, to experience, in this world before moving on to the next.

When asked what he thought

Of the afterlife

Thoreau was heard to say

One world at a time.

One world is enough

For any of us

To imagine,

To contemplate,

Even sometimes

To bear

Without going on

To the next one

Before its time.

One world at a time.

Now is the time

For this one.