mysterious
did ever haiku
understood by all people
exist in this world?
one ring to bind them
one ring to kick all the butts
can't see me now fool
is this haiku real
or are your eyes just playing tricks
on your feeble mind?
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony to glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.
- Spirit Teacher, The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
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