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Attaining heaven from your corpse in hell…


by Nikhil Parekh





A countless times in the name of religion you've cursed a countless
impeccable black cat's crossing your way—and thereby instantaneously
found yourself a most certain place in the most derogatorily punitive
hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've ruthlessly drowned a
countless girl child to the rock bottom of the ocean—and thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
sadistically morbid hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've brutally plucked
countless a nimble petal for offering to the god's—and thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
treacherously perverted hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've slit the throat of
countless an innocently bleating goat—and thereby instantaneously
found yourself a most certain place in the most reproachfully
vindictive hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've played hideously
perverted games of master with countless a truthful slave---and
thereby instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the
most tawdrily asphyxiating hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've spread the maelstroms
of violently abusive fanaticism—and thereby instantaneously found
yourself a most certain place in the most unsparingly victimizing of
hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've made countless
bountiful living beings as scapegoats on the sacrificial altar—and
thereby instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the
most devastatingly pugnacious hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've slandered and shed
countless droplets of blood on the other side of your wall—and
thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
destructively malignant hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've wasted a countless
hours spuriously meditating- with the devil playing truant in your
mind—and thereby instantaneously found yourself a most certain place
in the most heinously sinister hell,


A countless times in the name of religion you've sadistically
desecrated countless a church, temple, mosque, monastery—and thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
raunchily carnivorous hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've barbarously
assassinated a countless harbingers who were out to spread the
'religion of humanity'—and thereby instantaneously found yourself a
most certain place in the most traumatically agonizing hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've meaninglessly fasted
and starved a countless benign fellow beings to their living
graves—and thereby instantaneously found yourself a most certain
place
in the most despairingly murderous hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've consumed countless a
fountains of blood for breakfast; brunch; lunch; dinner—and thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
blasphemously vapid hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've went to gory war
orphaning countless pristine children and wives—and thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
ominously maiming hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've diabolically
castrated a countless chapters of prolific procreation preferring
marriage of same sex—and thereby instantaneously found yourself a
most
certain place in the most cadaverously disintegrated hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've imprisoned countless
a women behind the veils of sickeningly untouchable desperation—and
thereby instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the
most penuriously lambasting hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've taken a countless
livid oaths of stony muteness towards the closest of your kin—and
thereby instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the
most despicably truculent hell,

A countless times in the name of religion you've unabashedly invited a
countless evil spirits right into the center of your mind—and thereby
instantaneously found yourself a most certain place in the most
dementedly morose hell,

Can you not spend a just single minute of yours for a just a single
beat of immortally uniting love; just this one single time and in the
name of that same religion—and still attain the most unassailably
blessed heaven from the very midst of your corpse in hell?

 



Nikhil Parekh Am a World Record holding poet. Have composed thousands of poems on
countless global topics like Peace, Anti Terror, Friendship, Humanity, Environment & Wildlife Conservation, AIDS, Tsunami, Blindness, Spiritual Oneness etc. At my current age 29, I'm listed for two National Records in the Limca Book of Records India, which is only
second in official world rankings to Guinness Book of World Records. These are for the records of "Being India's only and 1st winner of the Eppie Award for best poetry e-book in the history of the Eppie Awards" and for "Writing the most numbers of letters to and receiving the most number of replies from World Leaders and World Organizations". I'm
also the recipient of several prestigious International awards and have been included in the TOP 10 rankings of Poems/Poets at Preditors & Editors online readers poll, which is one of the world's top readers poll. My poems have been published in the World's leading magazines and websites which include the Annual Commonwealth HIV-AIDS Newsletter published by Commonwealth Secretariat. A complete and more elaborate listing of my achievements and poems can be found online at my websites http://www.nikhilparekh.com or
http://www.authorsden.com/nikhilparekh


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