Dearly Departed

For all we know -- and we cannot, in this
lifetime know -- the angel we call Death
in invested with the authority to herald the
unsuspecting into the world they recognize
as one they visit constantly, a dreamworld
in their imagination but in reality another
existence entirely. For all we know, and we
cannot, in this world we know so intimately
recognize this would be a state of existence
other than our own, but completely our own.
Imagine, if  you will, Death introducing
Albert Einstein the world's preeminent
theoretical physicist to the brilliant mind of
Leonardo da Vinci the world's most masterful
creative mind, inventor, artist, tortured soul.
They would have much to discuss, would
they not? From the absurdity of their
heights of ability and knowledge superior
to all of their peers to their very human
condition, quite alike all of their peers and 
the bemused amazement that was theirs when
the place they knew as their alternate lives 
in a state of sleep, became their other
life forevermore in that unknown world.