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I’ve always been very cynical regarding the amount of influence religion has on society, I should add that I can only speak about the UK, and specifically the Christian Church. What particularly bothers me is the way that vast numbers of people have bought into the concept of being judged at death. The judge in question is an all-loving God, however, there’s a catch. The all-loving God is also angry, jealous and vengeful, and “He” loves you so much that if “He” deems that you haven’t loved “Him” back in accordance with the conditions that “He” imposed on “His” love, then you are for the high jump. Or, to be more precise, an eternity of hell-fire and brimstone. Of course, this is absolute nonsense, but it’s actually good nonsense because it has given me the inspiration for another book.
I have tentatively called it, Death – A New Beginning, and it will consist of a series of poems and (very) short stories that deal with death as a process. The process that enables us to transition to our next reality. In other words it will look at death from a spiritual perspective, but minus the angry God. So, this is the way my writing will be going for the next few months. The following piece, entitled “An Eagle Caged” is one such piece that may end up in the book.
Encased in a body of flesh
I was as an eagle caged
I existed to fly
But with clipped wings?
I was but a dreamer
Spending my days pondering
On what might have been
And what might yet be
If Only I could free myself
From the living death
But, is this not life’s greatest conundrum?
To seek freedom
Only to find that one was never caged
Merely a slave to the ego
Yes, a slave to the ego was I
A believer of life’s dramas
As they played out in my mind
I was the star of the show
Stumbling around the stage
Like a drunken actor
Struggling to remember his lines
Now, as the deluded await judgement
From their angry God,
My latest adventure concluded
I dissolve into the nectarine sweetness of Divinity
Author - Richard F Holmes 