Dimensions

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

-Rabbi Harold Kushner




This world’s walls are thinner than they look, my friends
  and breaking through is only the beginning
    of things that begin at the end

So we who are alive push against the brink
  slamming our heads against the edges of time
    in our attempts to shatter through to greater things

And when you fight – when you really fight
    you find a place that is twined with fire
where you live deeper and higher and wider than ever before
  for glory and for wonder and for the deepest of loves

And I have found it, my friends
  I have broken through the walls
and I have finally begun again

So I cast off all fear and take hold of the far side of time
    because there is my endless reward
  if only I lay down all my life