After

The light comes and penetrates all the dark nooks and all the dark crannies. I looked and I saw that it was gone. What had been there before was not there after.
"Ha" I said to him, "It is now after and not before, you are gone and can not be."
"Yes..." That was his dieing word. But later, much later, I heard, "Once more I live in the corners and in the dark."
I answered, "but how? It is now after and not before."
"It is after what is after the before! It is the future."