Don't waste your prayers on my soul for your own soul you pray <br />For my sins against others to Karma I must pay <br />To you I'm just a damned soul one who pens doggerel <br />Doomed to a life hereafter in the poetasters hell <br />Yet what you do think of me is your business not mine <br />And your business is your business and that does suit me fine <br />Your right to believe in what you believe in I never could begrudge <br />But does your allegiance to the God of your religion give you the right to judge? <br />On passing your judgements on others your God you do deny <br />As judge and thou shalt not be judged to you also does apply <br />I never ever recall of asking you for your advice <br />What I choose to believe in is surely my own choice <br />What you think of me is your own business and with me that is quite okay <br />Still for my sins against others to Karma I must pay.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-waste-your-prayers/
