When life passes away Poem by Ann Jäderlund

When life passes away. Each heavily
laden body. Detaches itself
from the actual body.
And steps in to the other.
One doesn't know where it
begins. Maybe it re-
distributes itself all the time
on the same surface. Sidewise
without temperature. If surfaces
even exist. Probably it doesn't
save anything. Does not exist
in itself. Where one is.
Soothes no suffering. Does
not even trace the emotion. Does it
even exist in depths? As
they are? Even porously?
Like the sides
in the shadow?