The Soliloquy Of The Agnostic.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

why do we say that those who take their lives
earlier than we do, and with their own hands deserve our pity?
no one has ever come back and tell us that they regret
what they are doing
or what they did was wrong
why do others say that they must have died a heroes death
and welcomed well by those guarding the gates of heaven?
or are there such gates?
or is there such a place which they call as heaven?
or it there hell?
why do you say that the books are correct? who wrote them?

all we know is we are here
we do not know where we come from
and where we are going

the fact is that is the only fact we know:
we all do not know.