words like forever

isn't it funny
how we can comprehend
neither
anything but here and now,
nor life without end?

how can it be
we use words
like forever,
when so often
we cannot sever
reality from our feelings?

such thoughts
create a reeling
even as they're thought.

no, i cannot understand
all the mysteries
of God
and man,
and i do not know
how to accept
a forever
that hasn't happened yet
other than to trust
- whether i know how or not,
i must -
in the one who created
all i can imagine
and so much more

and when the door

before me
leads to
the life we cannot see
from here
i know i can
step through it
without pause
or fear
for what my mind
cannot grasp now

then, with all else,
forever
will at last make sense,
and as all at once
our fears are dispensed,
safe in the arms
of our Defense,
our opened eyes
will witness
eternity commence