Ghosts, a Posthumous Consciousness

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Yes, I believe in ghosts just as I believe in an all-embracing posthumous consciousness or presence to which each of us contributes and in which everyone plays his or her part in a spiritual dimension that does not even recognise so has no need to measure any human concept of time. I do not mean 'spiritual' in any religious sense either, but in a far wider, more inclusive sense and continuum than it strikes me any 'closed shop' world religions can offer.

GHOSTS, A POSTHUMOUS CONSCIOUSNESS

I have sat with Greats

at a round table, chewing flesh

off bones

I have fought at battles

won and lost, seen vultures pick

the bones

I engage with political

and religious leaders in disputing

old bones

I’ve been good and bad,

done right and wrong, all for a bag

of bones

I have shared a beggar’s

patch, withering looks freezing up

the bones

I have lain in The Road,

and felt the wheels of time crushing

my bones

I urge the young to learn

a thing or two from the home truths

in their bones 

I urge the old to live, let live,

and breathe fire for the next phoenix

rising

Copyright R. N. Taber 2014