Many Believe Poem by Francis Duggan

Many believe when the body ceases to live that the good souls have wings to fly
To that green paradise of eternal life beyond the Universal sky
To a Land of eternal happiness to where only the good to can go
Of the existence of such a World I am not one to know.

As I do not believe in a God as such to whom that I might pray
For me no eternal Paradise going by what many say
I only know for all of us a final night and day
And that to the Universal Karma for my sins I must pay.

Perhaps those who believe in the hereafter are more insightful than me
And years beyond the after death they have the power to see
As long as to their higher selves they try to remain true
Then I will only credit them since credit they are due.

Does the soul with the body die when we've drawn life's final breath
Some people are truly convinced of a life after death
Some live in an Earthly Utopia and many live in an Earthly Hell
But of a life after death none have come back to tell.