who’s who

imagine reincarnation were true/and not only that/you could find out who you have been/via a service similar to ancestry dot com

imagine everyone knowing everyone else’s rap sheets of badly-lived lives

imagine discovering that some souls have a romance going on for thousands of years/and that that romantic pull cares not which mix of gender race age and socioeconomic status results/except the relationship might be appropriately changed to a friendship or a mutual admiration from afar

imagine finding that we to the hundredth power either do or do not learn from all these lifetimes of experience/and that the more probable of the two is that we do not/because we keep making the same deadly counterproductive counterintuitive future-betraying choices/showing zero gained wisdom over all these years?

now stop imagining

start forging the rest of your life

be more aware of the choices you make

act as if your life is being watched/every single second

and that it all goes on your permanent record

because that is where we are going reincarnation or no

.

did you know that the whirligig atop that automated vehicle that just passed you took your picture hundreds of times in less than a minute?

and that’s just a drop in the bucket

Sting stung us with Truth with “Every Move You Make”

Non-Santa knows when you’ve been bad or good

So make God proud, children

Even if God has better things to do than keep Her eye on you

It’s betterment nevertheless