Instant Karma - the prelude

[I'm hardly a stickler for statutes when it comes to sonnets. Bill would kill me.]

I write this to bring to your notice, O God,

I think your system of Karma is flawed:

You permit my conscience to commit a crime,

And save retribution for a later time-

I remain immoral this human birth,

But reincarnate as a worm in the earth.

God, O kindly ponder this clause,

Consider amendment to Karmic laws!

God, give me one death, one birth:

Punish me now for what I am worth;

For thoughts and words and deeds amiss,

Chastise me with any weapon but this

Guilt, which saws my soul away

And deals me a dozen deaths each day.