It is only a lifetime: A poem 

Sometimes to wonder why there’s tribulation so much 

When with goodness our conscience is always in touch 

As we reckon, we do not deserve the overwhelming suffering 

And worry and lament that life is not worth its offerings 

Those with consummate poise have a deep lustre within 

And those that ignore integrity for gain, are with evil ridden 

Intemperance, hedonism and corruption are a tragic mortal folly 

It is in being spiritually prudent that propitiousness will tally 

Karma expresses justice, it is to it that we should sublimate 

Then with future benevolence we will have our destined date 

For God is love, but not forgiving. He puts us through the grind 

With every rebirth, it is our own retribution we have to find 

The soul that forgets it has to pay for previous crimes 

Will be beset with additional pain with the passage of time 

Those that are stoic are astute in understanding it is only a lifespan 

Reward will come with graceful submission, what eternity will hand