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After Life

In this individualistic age

Why should I be constrained

By organised religious belief,

In my assessment of what the After Life

Has in store?

I used to believe that when we die

We’d be just so much compost on the floor,

Now I’m convinced that there must be more.

I hanker after Elysian Fields,

Perfumed gardens with laurel leaves,

An army of angels mopping my brow.

I’m a prophet of reincarnation, now!

 

As needs must, as time moves on,

After due consideration of what serves

My current cause, so travels my mind.

In the beginning there was wishful thinking,

In the end there was a tentative creed!

 

I’ve decided not to bother with sin.

No, not the commission part,

I will own up to plenty of that!

Just the acknowledgement part

And the retribution features as well.

According to my new belief systems,

Those aspects of sin can all go to hell!

I am bound for heaven, guaranteed

This sinner needs due access to heaven

And, for me, it’s each according to their need.

 

Why should a mere heart attack end my story?

There must be more, after all this glory!

 

 

 

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John Botterill

Fri 29th Apr 2022 20:23

Thanks for the like Angel 😀

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John Botterill

Fri 8th Apr 2022 03:53

Thanks Stephen A for the lovely comment 😊 I suppose I assume a given stance for poetic purposes. My own views keep changing!

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Stephen Atkinson

Thu 7th Apr 2022 20:01

The poet must believe for inspiration. However, the actual person may not...😁 Excellent work as always.

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John Botterill

Thu 7th Apr 2022 13:46

Thanks for the likes K.Lynn and Nigel 😀

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John Botterill

Wed 6th Apr 2022 22:56

Thanks Stephen and MC for your comments. I often muse about what, if anything follows this existence and I do keep changing my mind
A hot line would be great, Stephen and I think the jesuits and communists were/ are into mind control, which I don't approve of. Each to their own!!!
😀

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 6th Apr 2022 18:59

I agree about believing what you want to believe. The Jesuits
knew about getting in charge of that sort of thing with their
own actions of control over malleable minds...e.g. the very young and impressionable. This is, of course, replicated in lands where
what we understand as religion is replaced by another "belief system" - like communism.

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 6th Apr 2022 16:23

A thought-provoking poem, John. In my recent 'Hot Line', I mused on the possibility of some way for those still down here to contact deceased loved ones. But what of 'those up there'? Like you, I want to believe that there is something.

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John Botterill

Wed 6th Apr 2022 15:53

Thanks MC. An interesting perspective on my poem. I suppose I was suggesting that we tend to believe what we want to believe 😊

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 6th Apr 2022 14:23

Food for thought. Is there more after this existence on Earth?
The word "existence" may give the clue and provide hope for
more to come (as long as it's a welcome sort of "more", of
course!!) As I've observed elsewhere from a personal level,
there are things we can't witness, smell, taste or touch but, like
a TV, could it be that if you have the right receptors you get the
picture? Worth dreaming about perhaps? 😏.

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