One summer day I came screaming in this world.
Was I protesting leaving the warm womb?
Or is it an unjust and arbitrary deal for a soul?
Answer for such inquiry; is it a foolish expectation?
II
Questioning God? Blasphemy: some would say.
A call for a fatwa; cut his throat, must stop questioner.
Burn him on the stake, spoke an angry man with collar.
They did for less than this at Autos-da-fe (*), in Spain.
III
One doesn't do well asking why one is pushed here.
It's a human birth: a journey to experience a life.
A sapient, spiritual, or go off wandering; make a choice.
Come and go, or work the Nirvana, a Guru advises nearby.
IV
Why do you cry for arriving; see the rejoicing others?
A celebration on each anniversary sure, you'll have.
Celebration of approaching the end- an absurdity it is.
Eightieth birthday; the question remains unanswered.
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Author Notes
*-(From Portuguese: auto- da-fe, meaning 'act of faith') was the ritual of public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries of condemned heretics and apostates imposed by the Spanish, Portuguese, or Mexican Inquisition as punishment and enforced by civil authorities. Its most extreme form was death by burning.
-Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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