Infinity Equals Zero
He lies there contemplating his fate.
His eyes are growing dim.
His ears will soon create a world without sound.
He has lost his sense of taste and smell.
Soon, he will be like the others
living in a land of tubes:
Oxygen fed into his nose.
A tube in his belly to feed him.
Another in his sex to carry away the waste
and one in each arm to keep him alive.
He knows that his hands are closing
never to open again
that he will be left with nothing but two angry fists.
Thoughts run through his brain:
He is convinced that Infinity equals Zero
and Zero equals Infinity.
That life equals death and death equals life.
The afterlife is equal to the before-life.
Everything in the universe never was
and will be again.
That the nothing-but-space between it all
holds the answer to existence.
He knows that in that final moment
when the pump of life stops
his brain will energize its entirety
and the secrets of the universe
will become known to him
as he slips into the nothingness
and becomes one with the stars.