Watching old movies, he asked
His wife, Aren’t all those actors
Now dead? And then he recalled
That all the actors from all the
Old films he watches are dead
And his mother and father are
Dead and his first wife is dead
And the husband of his wife
Died on April 1 twenty years
Before and so April Fool’s
Jokes aren’t particularly funny
Anymore. And she knows that
In the future they still won’t
Be very funny. She knows that
About the future and she
Imagines being in the future
Listening to an April Fool’s joke
And thinking instead about her
Dead husband who lives in the
Moment. Some say that the
Past, the present and the future
Are all occurring at the same
Time and for two hours the
Old actors are alive while he
Sips his wine and when
He thinks about them, his
Parents are alive and in his
Dreams his late wife lives and
Then he thinks that one day his
Children will think about him when
He is dead and he will come to life
In his past and their present and
That will be in the future maybe and
We all know we are going to
Die, but the only ones who really
Know the immediate future are
Those who have decided on
Suicide. What they don’t know
Is the aching hole in the
Hearts of those who live
On into a frightening, unknown
Future.
bobdahl 
An old Jewish belief is that the dead live as long as they are remembered…so re-membering those we loved and who loved us recapitulates our history…and so telling the stories and remembering the faces is eternity for all of us. As I grow older, stories mean more and more to me, and I wonder if someone in the future will be telling my stories around the campfire.
Thanks for all the really profound and wonderful poems, Bob!