Good, bad and absolute

Good, bad and absolute

P K Routray

On Heaven, earth and hell

my grandmother used to tell

many a story

with their myth and mystery.

All they are instilled deeply in me,

today with same image, them I see.

Good deeds on earth take one to heaven

to drink, dine and dance there in the garden Eden.

Bad deeds on earth take a man to hell,

gets he on to boiling oil or strangulated in a suffocating cell.

In Heaven dears to God stay with pleasure

In hell the wrong doers are subjected to pain and torture.

Thus the impression and conception I carried on

but never thought it applicable to self, hence had no tension.

As certain, the ultimate destination is now drawing nigh

the tension has cropped up and caught me high and dry.

Reflected I on works done or seen by me all around

good in bad and bad in good deeds everywhere are found.

What looks good today turns out to be bad tomorrow,

what appears good to one is bad to another and brings to others sorrow.

An industry with all measures is surely a cause to environmental deterioration

we kill many worms, weeds pesticides during even your cultivation

For milk and meat we kill and torture many a bird and animal

so there is no wok which is absolutely good overall.

No atonement I find to my deeds which were not certainly absolute good,

hence my going to hell seems certain, please advise me, do what I should.