Re-Appearance Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

Having started, you come to the end of it:
Taken a book to refer, replace in its place:
Else, life will be one long search for it, etc.

If you are young, you have to grow old,
If you are old, you were young once;
If you are born, you have to die.

But I know that I will not be back
After I die, despite all that you say:
Since I know of no-one who did.

Once I know the essence of what is I
That it is nothingness, it becomes final:
How can nothing ever return, and be felt?