Heaven

is having the deaths
that we cannot repay
written off for us.

It Is Merely A Matter Of Time

Before shrunken returns seem entirely natural.

Hope

would be imagining, for lack of proof,
that I have an agreeable afterlife.
Despair would that in that time-outside-time
I would become a candidate for canonization.
I could not cope the debate that is part of being chosen.
The only cause for whom I would want be
a sign of hope, or a patron saint,
would have to be for the perpetually unemployable.

The Unsafe Life

'The Fall' the hope of life
and eternity beyond
the safety of 'being saved'.