A Crow Reincarnated edit 0.000001 billy

[tectak]

Loved it - esp the loose structure and great imagery.
Not sure about the last line - how is dying for your secret beliefs a rebirth?
Super job
Paul

Thanks for this. See reply to brownlie. The allegorical intent is simply described but I can see how the last line deceives. I ask the question myself quite often...if we are absolved of all sin and sinful thoughts upon death, are we also permitted to shed whatever beliefs we may have held?

You see, reincarnation is a certainty in terms of "matter" as we live in a terrarium. That is to say, we are bodily reconstructed from units of unaging matter...it is only our memories which are lost and cannot be reconstructed from "base units" of thought.

So...we "croak" into blackness (die into nothingness), but are unopinionated...some may say unprogrammed...at birth (silence the dawn), and once born, we are a victim of our birthplace in terms of belief, culture and religion...so it is best we keep secret our beliefs in case we are reborn in to the wrong belief system!
As I am prone to say, I don't do complicated or obscure...so if it seems that way it is by accident or by cynical intent.
Best,
tectak