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"If you don't believe in an afterlife, why even bother living? What's the point?"

No Eternity After

My life is so empty
So meaningless
Without a divine entity
to guide my soul along the way

What purpose is there
To do good?
To love?
To live?
If it will all be gone tomorrow...

...forever

Why not end it all?
Why live for today
knowing it wont last?
Why not go out with a bang
take everyone out with me?
After all, it all ends the same
no matter what I do

But...

The promise of eternity
Forever to live
Forever to love
Must I only seek
that which will never end?

Why is it so hard to imagine...
That one who would love forever
would love, if only for a single day?
That one who would always do good
would do good, if only for one lifetime?
That one who would live forever
would live, if only for a brief moment?

I would very much enjoy
an eternity of happiness
But wishful thinking bares
no whimsical solution
My life is short

I will die

But I will live

I will not waste this precious time of mine
seeking eternity
Knowing my time is finite
is no reason to throw my life away

If I sought eternal life
Only to give up once realizing
my time will inevitably end
Then what purpose was there in seeking
everlasting life to begin with,
if I couldn't even hold it dear
for the few decades that I am...

alive

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