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The Atheist’s Reward In Heaven.

 

You will, no doubt,

receive your reward in Heaven,

she said to me with an air of superiority

and down at heel, run of the mill

lack of charisma; I knew she didn’t have the money

to pay me, I wasn’t doing it for reward,

just to help a fellow human being

in a moment of distress

but still

she had to bring Heaven into it,

she had to tell me that her belief,

the conviction that by doing something good

you must automatically become