Exilium Vita Est—Life is Exile

The Christians have it that our lives are ways Of pilgrimage to take us on to where Souls yearn to be. We stumble through a maze

Of trials, avoiding devil, trap, and snare. The Buddhists feel that we are lost in pain That souls cannot escape until they gasp At some Enlightenment. Till then the stain Of breeding evil has them in its grasp. In Hinduism wandering souls are lost In near unending transmigration’s grip. Each soul is separated from the Brahman, tossed Around. Each soul is like a flailing ship That needs a perfect piloting to win Its port. These all reject the bliss of sin.