Nobody knows if there is a next life,
and if there is what it might be like.
But if there is a paradise, and I am invited,
I am stating now the terms on which
I expect it to work if I am to join it.
It has to be a place of infinite co-equality,
everyone with everybody else, species co-mingling.
It has to a place where there are no honours
no conspicuous military bravery,
nor even any militarism on display,
where the point of peace is proved
through the means by which it is achieved.
and if there is what it might be like.
But if there is a paradise, and I am invited,
I am stating now the terms on which
I expect it to work if I am to join it.
It has to be a place of infinite co-equality,
everyone with everybody else, species co-mingling.
It has to a place where there are no honours
no conspicuous military bravery,
nor even any militarism on display,
where the point of peace is proved
through the means by which it is achieved.
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