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Dear Departed	A
Do you still argue where you are	B
or did silence conquer even your convictions	C
	-
Tell me	D
when you arrived	E
did someone welcome you	F
or did you simply realize	G
you were alone with yourself	H
	-
Do you still say	I
This is my God	J
or did the name dissolve	K
before the answer came	L
And if there was no answer	M
what then became of your certainty	D
	-
Do tribes survive the grave	N
or did you carry them with you	F
like habits you could not bury	D
Be honest	O
do you still separate yourselves	P
even now	Q
even there	R
	-
Do nations exist beneath the soil	S
or have you in your quiet way	I
recreated them	T
in memory	D
in bias	U
in refusal	V
	-
Tell me	D
did death end division	W
or did it only remove the stage	X
where you performed it	Y
Who is superior now	Q
No answer carefully	D
who believes they are superior now	Q
	-
Does hierarchy die	Z
or does it become invisible	V
a silent arrangement of pride	A2
with no language left to confess it	Y
Do the rich still feel rich	B2
Do the poor still feel poor	C2
Or did you discover	M
that poverty was never of the pocket	D2
and wealth was never of the hand	E2
And your name	L
does it still follow you	F
or did you follow it	Y
into nothing	F2
	-
Tell me	D
when no one is left to remember you	F
did you finally meet yourself	H
or did you disappear with the memory of others	G2
What of your enemies	H2
did you lose them	T
or did they survive	I2
inside you	F
Do you still need to be right	J2
Or is right a language	K2
that could not cross over	M
	-
Answer me this	L2
did death humble you	F
or did it only expose	M2
how little you understood humility	D
Do you still hurry	D
Strange question I know	N2
but tell me	D
what is urgency	D
in a place without time	O2
Or is there time	O2
Did eternity feel endless	U
or did it feel like nothing at all	P2
	-
Be honest with me	D
were you disappointed	Q2
Did the afterlife meet your faith	R2
or did it ignore it	Y
Did you find what you defended	A
or did you find	S2
that you were defending yourself	H
all along	T2
	-
Dear Silent Ones	C
We assume you know now	Q
We comfort ourselves with that thought	U2
that death is clarity	D
that the grave is understanding	F2
	-
But tell me	D
what if it is not	V2
What if you arrived	E
and found no answers	G2
only the echo	N2
of the questions you refused to ask	W2
What if death did not teach you	F
but only stopped you	F
mid sentence	X2
	-
If you could return	Y2
not as a ghost	Z2
but as truth	A3
would you still speak with confidence	X2
Would you still divide us	U
into believer and unbeliever	D
native and stranger	D
us and them	T
Or would you hesitate	B3
just once	X2
before claiming certainty	D
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Dear Departed	A
We the living	F2
are still loud with conclusions	C
We build permanence	X2
on temporary breath	C3
We defend illusions	C
as if they will outlive us	U
We are certain	W
so painfully certain	W
of things	D3
you can no longer confirm	E3
	-
So tell me	D
and do not hide behind silence	X2
Did you discover the truth	A3
or did you discover	D
that truth was never yours to hold	F3
	-
And this	L2
this is the question that disturbs me most	Z2
In all your stillness now	Q
in all your distance from us	U
Are you finally free	D
or just finally unable	V
to pretend	G3
Yours	H3
still asking	F2
what you can no longer answer	D

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