# Eternity

**Published by:** [Existential Liturgies](https://paragraph.com/@existentialliturgies/)
**Published on:** 2024-08-31
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Give me an eternity in hell Let me sing with the drunkards and smoke with the vagrants Give me an eternity with the queer and transgender That they may teach me honesty Let me burn with the oppressed The women who sought abortion The men who married each other The children who murdered and were murdered to protect rich men’s comforts Give me an eternity in hell with the whore and the prostitute That we may learn of self love and lament for stolen innocence Give me the outcast, the weary, the burdened, the heavy-laden, and the marginalized Give heaven to the religious That they may play flutes and sing dirges Let them cry “Lord, Lord” and complain of streets that are paved with too thin a layer of gold Let them bemoan the sub-par cooking, cramped accommodations, and less-pearly-than-I-expected gates As for me and my house Give us an eternity in hell Better still Give us no eternity at all For it is oft with aching heart I wonder Should the soil my innards plunder Would my soul begins again Never to face an endless end And then, alas, it comes to me Of this fear, too, can one be set free So let us come, at last to rest In goddam blessed Eternity

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