If there’s an afterlife,
do we automatically act better there,
freed from our human imperfections,
or, worse, do we carry those burdens
into the afterlife with no redemption
and the dreaded hell or the
hoped for heaven for the chosen few?
Or do we go into a holding pattern,
our good and bad karma intact,
and return to the spinning wheel for another
shot at getting off the wheel — perfected?
I, of course, don’t know the answer to
these questions. And I’m more practical:
I just hope I don’t have to contend with any
insufferable or evil people there.
Bob Boyd