From this world to the next

We step lightly
from this world
to the next,
surprised
most of all,
by how familiar
it  is,
and how simply
and easily,
we can move
from what we
call life, to
what we call
death.
Expecting
as we were,
something different
to what we knew;
something other
than the reality
of life,
because
we had forgotten,
or we had believed
the lies which
others told,
about our
eternal natures.
And mostly,
people laughed,
because once
on the other side,
they could see
again, so clearly,
there was
no other side.
There was
just life,
as there
had always been,
separated by
our own
forgetting;
but never
truly lost.