Sweet, Hereafter

by Angela Johnson

  everyone that you know

  will know who you

  are.

  And your heart

  will be an open book.

  In the sweet hereafter

  there will be no

  bombs,

  grenades,

  IEDS,

  needlessly dead

  or perpetually dying boys, girls,

  men, women, and babies.

  In the sweet hereafter there will be

  no reason—no reason at all.