Of A Life Poem by Francis Duggan

Of a life after bodily death ask one other than me
Since without living proof with this i cannot agree
Any deceased person i have known has not returned from the dead to tell
Me of an afterlife for the soul or of a heaven or a hell
Some will try to convince you that a weed is a rose
But it is each to their own views one has to suppose
And since to any Universal God i am not one who pray
Of the existence of a heaven and a hell i am not one to say
The god of the mind is the only god i believe in
Since the power to do good only comes from within
In every individual with a good god of the mind
There is a human being who is compassionate and kind
Call me an agnostic or an atheist or call me what you may
Of the existence of a life after bodily death is not for me to say.