Jesus Never Wrote His Gospel

The one memoir to die for
Would be the first one someone
Wrote, anyone at all wrote,

Posthumously, the memoir
From hell or wherever ghost
Selves have been hiding themselves

All this time since people first
Invented spirited things.
If you could get out of life

Entirely and still look back
And comment upon it—if,
As many theists believe,

Death restored the memories
Souls have lost in later years—
What a record that would make.

Consider what life looks like
To the dead with eyes to see.
Can’t? That’s why you’d want to read.