oh people agonize about the end of their physical lives

and think some prayer to an imaginary "god of love and forgiveness"

will put them right in a static future once-for-all heaven


oh and that too is part of the comedy...

we who live forever thinking we can bargain

for some idea of immortality


and when the end comes we follow the tunnel to the Light

realizing what fools we've been here in the earth to think anything ended....






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