At Sunset

I figured this should be my first poem to give you a taste of what I can write like. I hope you like it, if you don't that's fine. Any feedback is appreciative and acceptable:

I see the sun setting across the ocean,

Beautiful oranges and reds atop the big blue.​

The sky is beginning to rotate into the darkness of night​

I see a jet stream cross the sky​

I'm standing on a rocky shore in front of crashing waves​

I smell the salty aroma of the ocean​

I feel at peace finally content with the world​

The jet stream crossed the horizon,​

Fell south of the setting sun.​

I stared in awe remembering my flying days...​

Nothing could match that view...​

A massive cloud began forming beneath the sun,​

Soon the setting sun was hidden by smoke.​

I realized what had happened but couldn't move.​

I was paralyzed with fear and fascination.​

The smoke came slowly at first then faster.​

Seconds later I could smell the fired bomb.​

I was lifted and blown off my feet.​

The last thing I remember was feeling warm...​

I felt a touch on my arm...​

When I came to everything was hazy and dark​

I felt ethereal and close to a higher power​

I felt happy and yet, sad​

I looked at my arm and it looked like a shadow​

I was translucent! What had I become?​

What happened? How did I get here? Where am I?​

Questions and more questions, the answers will soon be found.​

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c. 2007​

 

I voted 'Yes' , although I'm not entirely sure that there is an afterlife...either way no one will ever find out until they're dead

 

i voted "dont care"...i like your poem...

 

i voted "yes" cause there might be a place you go to after you die........ but i wouldn't know cause i'm not dead yet...................your poem is really good

 

i love your poem man!! it rocks!

 

Thank you, thank you, I'm glad you all like (who've put in a response, otherwise I wouldn't know)

 

i voted no...but i liked ur poem

 

voted "dont care". and i read a little bit of your poem. sounds pretty good.

 

Really Liked It, Great Description!!!

 

I liked your poem - both in content and meter. Describing beauty and pleasant thoughts before an unthinkable, unexpectant catastrophy ... Or was it. Perhaps an ultimate liberation for us all.

I put Maybe - tho I lean towards some presence after dying (based on too many experiences of "coincidence" over a lifetime).

 

thank you guys for the recent comments, haven't had one for this one in a long time-it was my first on here.

 

wow! you know what guys??????? i had a crazy event happen to me very similar to this event!

here is what happened to me:

I had an aneurysm burst in my brain. I was a guitarist and film production student at the time-2009.

I died- for 8 minutes - until paramedics revived my once lifeless body. What happened within the span of living and dying is somewhat different from most near-death experiences.
shortly after my aneurysm burst i remember seeing a silhouette of my arm coming out of my body in the movement of walking i was attempting. a step or two after the burst, i collapsed. i left my body at that moment and hung around the scene for a few then was pulled upwards towards space. i eventually wound up standing (in spirit) on top of the world directly above the location of my injury from space looking down.i was like, what? I’m breathing in space?!!? of course i couldnt see that far down to see activity around me. i looked out into the vast distance of space and saw a black circle hole getting larger and larger. i was moving towards the hole with increasing speed. i wound up going into the hole and saw colors all swirling around in a circular like motion similar to images in my video. that moment of going somewhere and not knowing the destination was the most true form of faith i can describe. absolute blind faith that things were going to end up ok. at some point going through that hole which i now call a worm hole my eyes for lack of a better term closed. i then felt warmer throughout my entire body when i got to my final destination-the beach. i opened my eyes and saw 2 spirits running towards me, much like in the movie 1408 after michael enslin's surfing accident where he was lying on the beach. there was a bright sun setting over the ocean horizon making the ocean loook like it was on fire and a 2nd brighter sun to my right. at that time i represented the brighter sun to be god. it took me several years after i woke up from my month long coma to realize that the real god is all encompassing, not a physical being/entity.
I was aware of my presence – it was sheer bliss being there in the light - but I was also aware I had died. .

About 25 seconds into my video it shows similarly my worm hole experience, but it was more like colored pencil texture rather than digital smoothness. The next thing I knew, after the changing patterns and colors all around me, was when I woke up on a beach in a warm, beautiful light from two suns in the sky. I don’t think I could ever feel so much bliss as I did on that beach. as i laid there on the beach i had many questions that surfaced, my hands stung like something was pierced through them like jesus being nailed to the cross! i questioned if i was jesus in a prior life. it seemed logical at the moment, i hasd then asked maybe telepathically, "where is jesus and god? i need to talk to them." in the next instant it was like a universal knowledge that how mankind knows them didnt exist.

There were so many beautiful colors!I do remember going through multiple color fields that kept tilting and rotating like my video.

The similarity to my ‘in life’ drawings were similar to my first visions in my NDE and much like my video. i made that video before my experience.
As I continued to lay on that amazing beach, I became aware of a spirit coming out of the water on the beach and beginning to approach me.

I seemed to know that it was a male spirit and very tall. He appeared friendly at first, but as he came closer, I saw that he was morphing into something not so pleasant - not evil - just uncomfortable. i later found out that this was symbolic of my fear in coming back to life on earth.

I was just so calm,relaxed and peaceful where I was on that beach.

I could tell by the atmosphere there- more real than here on earth that a blood filled hating world like here on earth is hazy, there in the light it was clear as could be like better than 20/20 vision. as i was waking up i had a warm pleasant voice come through me that i could come back any time I wanted, even if i were to commit suicide!

Since this experience, it’s been very strange for me. This is why I have been searching for non-traditional religious, perhaps even spiritual answers and opinions on my experience and I feel that I need to do it on my own.

There are so many people who fiercely believe in God and Jesus; I’m really searching for answers in another direction such as the existence of the universe as a whole.

I remember while I was in still in that warm light, I was aware of paramedics starting to defibrillate me. I began to also see the beach sky with red lightning bolts all across the outer layer of the sky and it just freaked me out. Whether it was the second large sky filled lightning bolts or the second defibrillation-i do not know if it was my choice to come back- ive heard various theories on this. I’m left undecided- I’ve tried taking responsibility that it was my choice from what I’ve heard from certain people but how does one know for sure? you know? i dont!.

i heard my ex- fiancee's voice talking to me to come back that she was sorry! to come back for her or our cat-yoda but to come back!
then as i laid there on the beach, i said, well, im not in hell!-- is there a hell? the entire horizon view tilted over like a complete planetary angle shift instantly turning black showing me a view from space a view of earth, i was dumped off and flew fast towards my body, it felt like i was going to miss coming back to my body! i then lived my entire life in fast forward mode, going from sperm, to egg, to baby, being born!... to waking up in the hospital