DIFFERENCE

Some of the older theologicians say God is puzzled

And upset by men’s foolish habit of dying.

They record witnesses who’ve seen Him on battlefields

Angrily kicking corpses or swear they've seen Him

In hospitals, thick-fingeredly pushing souls back into bodies

(Perhaps not the same bodies with which they’d been admitted.)

Some interpret this as a strident form of God’s mercy

Or say Infinity can never compromise with Limit

A few claim it is because the dead, after a while,

Seem to find their ways to God’s House and move in

So there are always souls on the roof playing harps

Or in the basement chucking coal at each other

Or leaving the refrigerator open until the rooks

Believe Heaven was made to delight them only.