The wages of sin

The wages of sin                                                                                        
 
There is no creature not destined
for the supreme goal, said my Lord.
 
What then of the wages of sin –
if each sequential death leads merely
 
to yet another roll of the dice, a foothold
and a hand up (until we wear out death itself)?
 
The wages of sin is apparently
and always has been death-in-life –
 
an aeons-length estrangement
from the Living Water until we develop
 
enough thirst and world-weariness
to prompt and enable renunciation.
 
Sin (and its wages) being the nothingness
we trade in for the Everything.
 
O child of God, the wages of sin are a necessary
imbursement toward the Self’s eventual revelation.