[ Brief Encounters ]

                              Brief Encounters


Now and then a door opens allowing we mortals a glimpse of immortality brief though it may be.

Slowly almost imperceptibly we leave the crudity of our earthly state behind us and enter the ethereal world from whence we originated

Here family and friends greet one another

They who have journeyed on ahead have shed the years
Leaving behind their imperfections and gnarled bodies
And seem indeed to have found the fabled fountain of youth

Here in this Eden colours take on a whole new meaning
So vibrant and alive are they.

Alas all to soon our brief sojourn ends and once more we don our Mortal coils with all of our defects and imperfections
And once more take up the challenge of mortality.