(The photograph above is an image of a mausoleum door in Mt Hope Cemetery Rochester New York.

People have etched upon its door their angst of being. What does the idea of death do to us? What does it say about our culture and the worth of our culture? Eternity waits for us all, shall we flatly write our graffiti upon its door or shall we imagine beyond it—Isn’t it better to imagine beyond it and in so doing give faith to hope and hope to being.

Second Door

Two doors to eternity,

one opens to a tomb,

the other to the infinite.

Your epitaph can be written

on one, or when the time comes

it can be written on the other

in the quantum maybe of perhaps.

I don’t know about you,

but I’ll take the second door.

©2005 Dan Kantak

Photograph Rochester NY

MT. Hope Cemetery. 10/29/2005