In the Next Life, Canto II, stanzas 11-17

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Again, I am awake.
Again, it’s time to go.
I have more things to make.
There’s more I need to know.

I have so much to hear.
There is so much to see.
The others do not fear.
I never see them flee.

So once again I’ll follow those
because I’m sure they know the way.
The right way is the way it goes
when I do what they do and say.

From them I have so much to learn
about our ways and things to do.
I’ve learned about the way to turn.
Now more is old and less is new.

Each has a number on her shell,
and by the number she is known.
That’s how I and the others tell
whose actions we are being shown.

Each time this happens I am more aware
of who I am and who my neighbors are,
of who knows what to do, and when, and where,
of which way we can wander, and how far.

Each time I wake, I have a better sense
of knowing things without the need to see.
I like the way I feel. My confidence
in others gives me confidence in me.

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©2010 Louis A. Merrimac