you are my Cardinal South

tell me
what will we find in the afterlife?
bird song and blinding light?
and will we still be walking?

now we
can only go to Heaven
because Hell is what we've left
Hell is what wrote and erased our breath

those who
have walked away from me would know
and maybe they will meet me
maybe they could teach me
how to glow

as now I am a ghost
now I float
I am your
Cardinal North