Cycle of Rebirth

a poem by Sheela K . Sharath

Life is not what you make of it!
It’s the raw deal you’re dealt
by karma or fate
or blame it on your actions
in your previous birth.

How strange that
you should pay the price
for past misdeeds.
Today’s actions will
be yesterday’s wrongdoing
in the day after!

So,
if you don’t want
to relive life
as a pesky fly,
a dratted rat,
or worse still as a
cockroach,
you better watch
what you say
or do
in the
here and now!