Don'T Waste Your Prayers Poem by Francis Duggan

Don't waste your prayers on my soul for your own soul you pray
For my sins against others to Karma I must pay
To you I'm just a damned soul one who pens doggerel
Doomed to a life hereafter in the poetasters hell
Yet what you do think of me is your business not mine
And your business is your business and that does suit me fine
Your right to believe in what you believe in I never could begrudge
But does your allegiance to the God of your religion give you the right to judge?
On passing your judgements on others your God you do deny
As judge and thou shalt not be judged to you also does apply
I never ever recall of asking you for your advice
What I choose to believe in is surely my own choice
What you think of me is your own business and with me that is quite okay
Still for my sins against others to Karma I must pay.