Oh No

This poem was very interesting. My first take on it was as if it was a consoling poem, saying that everything will be okay, "you" will get a nice chair to sit and relax in after death. Yet the simplicity of my take on the poem was unsettling, and I felt there was much more that I was missing.
As I read it a couple more times I started to think there was a dark, possibly evil, tempting tone. Like the poem was trying to get me or whoever to do something we weren't supposed to.
I began to research about other people's views on the poem... I came across multiple different perspectives, but the two most common were death and heaven.
While both thought similarly about "wandering" through life, the chair and the friends with their smiles were completely different. The darker version took the chairs as the "home" of the rich and wealthy - they forced their way to wealth and "bought" the chairs to sit and relax on their pedestals. The friends smiled, welcoming the newcomer, but they weren't really friends; there was no sincerity about them, and they were just engrossed in themselves as the newcomer supposedly is.
On the other hand, the view about heaven thought it was more of the relaxing part after death. Everyone got chairs because man was created equally; the friends and family were the friends of the newcomer who were already deceased.
I reread the poem multiple times trying to figure out which "take" I thought more suited my interpretation of the poem.
Whether the chair symbolized the wealth and money of the selfish and wealthy, or the nice relaxing seat of the old and tired.
I decided the poem was a combination of the two. That it took a positive outlook on life; positive in how people were selfish in the way they tried to saw themselves before others: survival of the fittest.
Towards the end of the poem I decided I was unsure about whether I liked it. The poem definitely got me to think about life.
I thought about my life.. How it's possible that the chair could be both the selfish's home but also the place where old friends connect... I almost found the poem to be a lesson on perspectives. But maybe it wasn't the poem that "taught," but the research to discover what the poem was about.