Insurmountable Poem by Patti Masterman

In this world, everything has an obvious or covert meaning,
In the next world, not so much.

Here we may speak our minds;
There we have no mouth-
Or perhaps words are verboten, between them and us.

There seems a wall that divides, so words
Are not allowed to flow freely between.

This wall has been the subject of much controversy;
Famous magicians, before death, have arranged experiments
In hopes of defeating this wall, but it remains unchallenged.

Any communicating done after dying
Must appear to have been accidental, coincidental,
This is the only rule of communication
Discernible, between this world and that.

What rules in the world of determinate accidents there
Rules here also:
Plans come to fruition only by synergistic accident,
Although here we like to think they happened according to our will.

Some people will even go to the next world, entirely by accident-
And some remain here, in the same way.

Two worlds, peopled with the same inhabitants- sooner or later.
And it's always later, than we think;
Let us not erect contiguous walls, just because it's allowed:
If we avoid the real walls here, the ones to come will be insurmountable.