When I Died

When I died,
There were no white lights,
No pearly white gates,
Nor did I fall upon the burning pits of hell.
My life didn’t flash upon my eyes,
Nor did I rekindle those moments I desired!
I did not feel my soul leave my body,
To look down upon my lifeless body.
When they brought me back,
I didn’t feel my lungs fill with air,
Nor do I remember my first breath.
For days I laid in intensive care,
Those days were a dreamy haze.
My family sit around my bedside,
All teary eyed, they nearly lost their boy.
Naked as the day I was born
Wired to the elevens,
This is no heaven!
A shock to the system the day I died,
To breathe again,
I cried!

by Joseph Tanner

When Death Came To Me!

Darkness filled within me,
Clouded memories of a day that I dreamt.
Many hills climbed in this turbulent life,
Now trailing over another.
Lost in another world,
Free from thought and cares of this world.
Running to an end,
Which is lost to me!
Before he gets his deathly grip on me,
Pulling me down,
Taking breath from my body.
Failing to take me with him,
I find myself searching for another meaning!
Life brought back into me,
Through a daily haze I live,
Sleeping with the ghost that was once me!

by Joseph Tanner