Reincarnation

"Reincarnation would be a return to hell, and an existence in heaven would be an illusion." By Darryl Houston Smith, Poet

The Fraud of Eternity

​They promise us fresh, tender skin,

A chance to cleanse the spirit at dawn,

But birth is merely the beginning of sin—

A carcass replaced, a grave withdrawn.

​To cry again! To taste the bitter air!

To feel the heavy weight of lust and time!

This earth is but a slaughterhouse for prayer

Where souls are dragged through centuries of slime.

​We are the compost of a thousand lives,

Recycled through worms, wombs, and mud;

The Wheel turns ceaselessly with knives,

To drown memories in a fresh wash of blood.

​And high above, that blue and stagnant gaze?

That promised land of harps, milk, and light?

A painted theater! A celestial haze

Designed to conceal the teeth of endless Night.

​For Heaven is a vapor, thin and cold,

A detached perfection frozen in glass,

A sterile dream that nervous priests have sold

To make our hours of torture pass.

​There is no bliss within that silent sphere,

Only the phantom ache of things unfelt.

But Hell is solid. Hell is warm. It’s here,

Inside the marrow where the passions melt.

​Reject the womb! Deny the morning star!

For if we awaken to a child’s cry,

We return to where the monsters are:

To die again... and never truly die.