A funeral is a preparation for the life after. And if you believe that you will be reborn again, the balance sheet will be summed. Just like in any economy your good deeds will be weighed against your sins. Will you be reborn into a slug, or pass further on into a higher being. At the end this does not matter so much to me. I think if we try to balance our deeds we can live full lives and the world will be a better place to live in.
Angel with incense by Francisco de Zurbaran
chrysanthemum –
the incense lingers long
after burial
after burial
the balance sheets are drawn
reborn as what?
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February 9, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings 
The first haiku really impacts me…beautiful…lingering. The second makes me want to scream “please don’t bring me back!”, but that’s my issue ;-O I do hope there is a balance sheet for the evil to return as something that is constantly being battered and easily killed. How awful am I?
I think there’s a balance sheet somewhere.. And to some extent we are measured on it even as we live.. For some beasts I would wish for punishment .. But at the end of the day we can just do the best we can while we live..
It is all right here and continues on and on ~ spirits are with us ~ my Taoist belief ~ Very contemplative haiku and well penned Bjorn ~ xxx
I sure hope it isn’t a slug for me, maybe at least some annoying insect that can fly
Wonderfully composed set of haiku Björn…
I like that idea but we just don’t know. I surely don’t want to a slug.
Beautiful set of haiku
This is so well done! Just excellent.
Lovely as usual. I’m a Christian (2% of population) among Hindus, etc. here in India, so I believe that one life is it. I would rather ask for and get forgiveness than face having a score totaled against me.
Perhaps once a poet, always a poet?
Cheers, Jules
It’s built into our nature…the idea of justice (balance sheets), awareness of an afterlife, and realizing we cannot reach perfection on our own.
Beautiful and profound. The idea of being re-born is appealing if only to right certain wrongs or even to finish fulfilling our dreams 🙂
fantastic imagery, and I really enjoy how you have melded several different religious beliefs into the entire post.
The first one so nicely put – and great touch of humour there in the prose, but beautiful summing up
I obviously giggled over the second haiku. Come back as what indeed.