Metaphysics And Death Poem by John Sensele

Spiritual death doesn't send shivers down believers' spines
Though in metaphysical terms, spiritual death inflicts fatal effects
Whose impact is just as devastating as any artillery and machinegun lines
Of fire as the battlefront between forces of good and forces allied to rejects.

Physical death with its smell of abandoned cadavers
Gnashes teeth and for a moment, at least, imposes a small measure
Of repentance, penance and shaken confidence in endeavours
Believers contrive to embark upon in their pursuit of leisure and pleasure.

Eternal death with its long term consequences cossets believers' egos
Who claim the pie in the sky is a subterfuge concocted by chaperones and stoics
For whom hedonism is taboo and anathema. Instead, pleasure seekers' goals
Boil down to immediate gratification of the body. They indulge in aerobics, not heroics.

Death be it spiritual, physical or eternal evokes a nuance of emotions
Ranging from stiff upper lip to overt histrionics and covert rituals with wide ranging implications
On whether death signifies temporary sleep or death implies explosions
In which soul, body and ether separate, all of them to undertake missions with varied dispensations.