Justice, and Retribution
Some claim that the response to one's inheritance
is what merits reward, or damnation.
In the circumstances of our births
some inherit intelligence, money, charm, and position,
many inherit crime within insect-infested slums,
AND most inherit disease, hunger, and poverty.
Our ideas of Karma, reincarnation, heaven, and hell
imply the possibility of justice.
I think that our naive ideas of past and future existence
are wishful, romantic thinking
for those who want to believe in justice and purpose
yet existance seems to transcend purpose.
In my romantic notion, justice happens
during the moments of dying, in a hellish process
that consumes our ideals, and ideas
our brain's ego-identity decays and dies.
Yet through it we may joyfully awaken
to being subsumed within the Source.
If for any purpose, for the Source
of love, compassion, joy, life, and death.
Afer death, do we still exist, as individual entities?
Did we ever?
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