this is not a poem

[busker]

but it could work as inspiration if you guys wanna write a poem based on this idea. I know I might. If you guys wanna suggest any readings/poems based on this idea or similar ideas I'd love to check those out. Would like to hear what you guys think about this argument:


If a lifetime amounts to one eternity, and Hell
is an eternity of torment, then a lifetime
of torment is Hell. If the conditions we produce
are exploitative of our siblings,
then Hell is our creation, born from our
divided imagination. Satan walks among us
but so does God;

if a lifetime amounts to one eternity, and Heaven
is an eternity of bliss, then a lifetime
of bliss is Heaven. If the conditions we produce
meet the needs of our siblings,
then Heaven is our creation, born from our
collective imagination.

You could’ve been a 5 year old murdered in Auschwitz. Was your life heaven or hell?
The death of children upends your theory

I don’t know what to make of the nature of reality. What I am certain of is that the Abrahamic religions barring Judaism are built on very weak foundations. The execution of an illiterate preacher in a backwater of the Roman Empire was not the calamity that saved humanity. It was just the unexpected death of a zealot who was himself surprised by the swiftness of it all.