Life
 
 

Life is hell,
Then we die.
None can tell
The reason why.

The Religious
Says the hereafter
Is joyous,
Fill'd with laughter.

The Atheist
Says all's lost,
For we consist
Of compost.

I don't care
Either way,
Here or there
It's O.K.

Empangeni  November, 2001.
 

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