The Crystal Lady 

The Poet's Corner

Hell
by Joan Estelle High
© 7-8-2005
revised 11-11-2005

When  I look around the world today, 
I see poverty, sickness, stupidity and war.
We don't  need to invent a Hades in this time and place 
 The demons that lived in Hell, pried open a long lost door.
They are now out roaming around  this world,  
But  keeping  Hades as their home base.

Did they run out of souls to torture and to maim, 
or are our wars just so much more fun today.
The bombs are bigger, the loses greater, 
so many new techniques in the killing game.
And if they tire of that game, then they can let 
pestilence's and famine have their way.

Only Demons would  blow children  up just for fun 
Cause the weather to go amok, starvation is their aim.
Burn some cities down, and destroy them one by one.
They often howl with glee at the wounded and the lame.

I know  there are some people that like to say 
"There ain't no Hell", but I say "Hell there ain't".
Many say"  live your life, enjoy it , just live for today
The picture is not as always as  rosy as they paint.
 
A word of caution comes from me, it seems apparently clear
that when I died on some other plain.....I ended up down here.

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