Pertinacious Perpetuum

Vast hereafter
is what comes next
between what is written
and what is being said
the gates open up.

Vast hereafter
is more never-ending
than the never-ending story

yet more engrained in the here
and now, more petrified
than stone.

Vast hereafter
is situated beyond the nothing
that embraces you

during those brief instants
between the seconds
that pass unnoticed.

Vast hereafter
turns what is vast even vaster
puts here there, after before –
a pertinacious perpetuum
a re-written story.