I used to be a true believer,so sure I was reaching
higher planes
in this walk through life.
From early on, I was raised to believe
in gods and saints,
the afterlife and sweet by-and-bys.
All good people went to heaven;
innocents and babies immediately saw God.
Then, after a life of blind faith
and assurances of great rewards,
I changed my mind,
examined my beliefs,
and saw things differently.
Now, there is no great reward.
My agnostic eyes see no assurance of who is waiting
at some pearly gate.
There is no gate
probably no heaven
and surely no hell.
Life became more precious,
the Universe became huge,
and everything was let out of the box.
The single individual life
became more of a jewel.
We each have this life
this gift from the universe.
How we handle that life is up to us.
Some have great opportunities,
others only hopelessness.
Some live to that three score and ten
while the years of others are cut short.
That single life
precious jewel,
it is the potential to
experience and grow
the opportunity to blossom
like the flower.
Once that life has been created
nobody has the right to snuff it out.
Regardless of how that life came to be,
no one has the right to uproot it.
It doesn't matter how a person's life got started.
In the grand scheme of things,
in the eyes of the universe,
the simplicity is, that a new life was started.
A life with no do-overs
no returning to the bosom of Abraham
no assimilation into the Force or
back to the energy of the universe.
A life that is more precious in its unfolding,
more important in the start and finish of a complete journey,
than any reasons for prematurely ending it.
