This Is My Hell

This Is My Hell

A Poem by Aaron Parker
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Title says it all.

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Pain burns beneath me,

Salvation up above

May I fly to my freedom

Or will I descend below

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A balancing act is life

Murky dark and brilliant white

Which will win over

In this inevitable strife

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This pressure is unbearable

Will it rip me apart

Will I become a diamond

Or ugly grey rock

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Will the stars up above

Show me the path

Or will greed win over

In an ugly wrath

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Will angels guide me

Or demons misalign me

My heart break into pieces

Or my being become complete

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Would sickness exist without health

Would pain without evil

Joy without good,

Heaven without hell

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Many believe heaven a haven

Where evil cannot reside and

Hell a nasty burning abhorrence,

How wrong they are

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I'd rather make hell my sanctum

Numbed in all to pain

Rather than ascend

To a charlatanic paradise

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For what is a world

With no loss

And no gain

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Pearly gates or

Circles of torture

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All I know is,

At the moment

I live in my

Own personal hell

 

© 2014 Aaron Parker


Author's Note

Aaron Parker
Just to let everyone know, I am not agnostic nor an atheist. In this poem, heaven and hell are metaphors. Thanks! Honesty is appreciated.

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