photo by Darren Halstea, Unsplash. Used w/ permission
Karma
Can we extricate ourselves from all the evil we may we do,
or once we meet our maker will fate drop the other shoe
and will the evil we have done be visited on us?
On our journey to Nirvana, will we have missed the bus?
Will we be held accountable for all that we have done?
Once our life is over, will atonement have its fun?
Will there just be the help for us that we’ve given to others,
so our lack of mercy toward enemies and brothers
will be visited upon us, in spite of all our pleas—
past cruelties unfurled on us as we beg on our knees?
How many lifetimes will it take to extricate our being
from the fate we’ve set in motion? How long ’til we’ll be seeing
that the future ills we suffer are the ills we’ve done the world,
and in each evil act, our own future was unfurled.
Prompts this week are accountable, total, Karma, extricate and help.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
If only we thought like that, there would be no evils in the world.
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There would still be people professing not to believe in Karma who would continue to do their own thing..I fear.
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I know a lot of people like that.
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Hopefully not long in his case
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Fingers crossed.
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He’s a miserable person, so karma is already at work. Great poem.
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👏
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A profound one
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