An Invisible Forest

Two things: first, prior
To death, nothing ever
Exists unless death does
Not; second, the future is
A part of the invisible
World that is, if any is.

Try again. If dying
Removes both memory
And awareness of absence
Of awareness, then death
Removed its prologue,
Leaving not even death
To remember. The future

Remains within the sky
That holds no more
Than sidelong glances
At a death that cannot
Be what it cannot be.