The Soul Leaps First

Bury me like the earth buries fossils, let some archeologists dig up my body,

venture into a feeling of the void calling,

will himself to join me, make himself history,

write his history in a book,

ship it off to students in computer class,

watch the look of amazement on their faces from the heavens,

tell them “I was a student just like you once”

scare them by saying “You will end up like me”

immortalized by your bones,

preserved by those who found you amazing,

your soul will get a call of the void, will leap off a cliff into an abyss,

and your body will have no choice but to surrender in convulsion.

Your soul leaps first. The body only follows.