ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN? (1) AND (2)

Who’d ever want to go to heaven

And stay forever as they are

Without the slightest change to leaven

Their mortal clay is just bizarre.

Don’t think that Heaven’s immortality

Would satisfy our rationality;

How much can any person take

When there is nothing we can’t slake.

To last forever means infinity;

And if you wish to stay the same

Then only you will bear the blame

For being bored. It’s asininity

To not know that each human breath

Is made the sweeter by our death.

BASKING IN GOD’S GLORY: ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN? (2)

And as for basking in God’s glory

So that you lose yourself in Him,

You’ll find that it’s the same old story,

If reasoning is not a whim.

If you’re absorbed in God’s reality,

You’ll have to lose your personality:

For totally absorbed in God,

Means that you lose your mind and bod.

For anything that’s all consuming

Would leave no room for what you are.

So, not yourself, you’d bid bonsoir

To you and then whoever’s rooming

Inside your mind gets room and board.

If not, then you’d go off your gourd.