Fallen Angels and Risen Demons

Fallen angels and risen demons, 

Stalling hearts and love still screaming, 

My soul has ripped into this paradox, 

Vision of golden rays and prison locks,  

"Why have you fallen?" I ask the halo  

He weeps bitter tears and keeps his face low, 

"Look to the sky for that's where I was found- 

The weight of the world hath brought me down"  

 "Why have you risen?" I ask the fire 

He smiles as if his life is desire, 

"Because it's your precious soul for a sacrifice, 

You let your heart gain over your life" 

Fallen angels and risen demons, 

See the future where I lay screaming, 

My life has turned into this paradox, 

Burnt halo rings and charred prison locks

Author's Note

Why evil can conquer good.

Reviews

[light and ashes]

I am afraid of that too. I've messed up so badly for so long. I am afraid that the world will end tomorrow, and I will not have time to fix them and I will go to hell. You need the same reassurance that I have needed. That will not happen to either one of us. God has promised us that, and He always keeps His promises. I believe I had a vision once of the river of life mentioned in Revelations. I was being cleansed by it. It was at the beginning of when my life first started to feel like hell. I believe God gave me that vision to encourage me. I share it with you to encourage you now. God is going to cleanse us and we will both be alright. Just hold on a little longer.

[LazerRays]

Yeah... I'm stuck between sinning and not.... It's so damn hard... I'm scared everyday I'll wake up dead and god will say "I never knew you" but yet with this sin I'm like "just go anoter day, you'll be fine" I get so stressed and get major anxiety over this... Thanks for the review and encouragement!

[light and ashes]

You're welcome, I believe I know what you are going through.... Also, I seriously doubt that God said that to you. If you are His child once you are His child forever. It was probably the devil that told you that because he wants you to think that God said that.

[LazerRays]

Sorry, just quoting the bible... "I never knew you"
I know it's the sin that tells me to keep on sinning... Haha...

[light and ashes]

Believe me, I know what you are going through and I know how hard it is....It is your guilt or Satan that is telling you, "I never knew you." It is not God. God loves us and He is not willing to give us up just because we mess up sometimes.

[light and ashes]

Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[LazerRays]

Matthew 7:21–23
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

[light and ashes]

Yes.....I know, but God is not hard hearted like we often think He is. He does not turn away from His children so easily.

[LazerRays]

Ah, but I have turned my back on him by sinning... And that's the problem.... :(

[light and ashes]

I understand....... but you will turn back to Him. You have to believe in yourself that you can do that.

[light and ashes]

I'm suffering from the same awful guilt that you are....we must press forward though despite it.

[LazerRays]

.... Yeah. We must... That's the problem... The weight of the world has brought me down

[light and ashes]

Me too, I think a lot of Christians feel like that right now..

[LazerRays]

Unfortunately... :(

[light and ashes]

You are not alone.

[wordman]

this is a great description of revelation with a nice twist

[Perdition]

So far ahead of your peers it's actually quite frightening. "The weight of the world has brought me down" ..so many lines in this one that are filled beyond imagery's capability. I don't like form ..you know that about me , I just think it's limiting for the poet's horses to run and you have quite a few horses in your corral that stand proud, yet i keep on coming back here to read your poems which speaks volumes..both revealing my stubbornness as well as your talent. So there! Now as for that Author's Note..WHAT? When you have words and poems like these? Skip your life through already ...you have already started the process of favor. Now go find some turtles already why don't ya ;)

[LazerRays]

Ahahahaha- thank you perdition. Idk what came over me when I was writing this. I just got thinking about life and death and some pretty morgue stuff. And the authors note I er... Sorta just let me fingers type away. Didn't mean for it that way but ah well.... Yes! Maybe I should write a turtle poem! (just kidding) thank you as always perdition!!! :D

[Perdition]

Life! Life and fingers must have their say when they start their run...Happy T Day and my pleasure as always as well....Sinner..lol.!

[LazerRays]

Thank you! Same to you ;) don't eat too much hahaha- might affect the way you write. Haha, and lay off the cranberry sauce! That's mine! Hahahaha!

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

Your poem is expressive and filled with emotion. The reader is able to see and even feel the fear you've woven throughout the stanzas of the poem. Did you mean "My darkness has frozen the cemetery snow?

Great job and keep writing. :-)

[LazerRays]

Thank you! I actually was attempting at symbolism with the cemetery snow.... I did mean what I said... Haha- but if it's that bad I'll definitely change it ;)

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

No, it's not that bad. I was just wondering if you meant frozen. I enjoyed greatly what you've expressed in the stanzas. :-)

[LazerRays]

That warms me up :D thank you!!!

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

Happy to be of service. :-)

[angel]

No need. Firstly, human beings always need some bad news thrown at them before the blessing of good news, assuming that they're otherwise comfortable and content. Often,the only way God would be relevant to them is if you convince them of impending judgment after death. In regard to that, two things: human beings know many deep, horrible kinds of pain before they hear of hell, and the gospel offers hope not just for forever, but for here and now
Purgatory is not in the Scriptures at all, but is an invention of the Catholic church, designed to terrify the people into going to church.
Ask yourself this: would a loving Creator cause one of His children to suffer horribly in an eternally burning Hell?
He would not.
What is hell, really...it is, in Hebrew, SHEOL--the grave
In Greek, HADES: A Greek God whose name eventually became the unofficial name of the 'home of the dead', i.e.,the grave.
Once you die, you will either go to Heaven, or remain, unconsciously dead, in Sheol, in Hades, in, if you will, Hell, which is just to say you are dead and gone forever.
Life eternal in the presence of God and Jesus, or dead and gone forever; I'll choose Jesus, please.
Every person gets the choice. If you fail to choose Jesus, you will be gone. If you do, life without end.
But don't be afraid. No hellish torment.
Oh, my Lord, I just realized I never mentioned your comment!

In verse 2, the line "but it was the weight of the world that has brought me down" seems a little lengthy to me. I would remove those first three words completely. You don't need them anyway. the weight of the world that has brought me down
says the same thing.

All in all, however, a fine poem.

[LazerRays]

Yes! Don't worry ;) I am a Christian- thank you so much for the review!
I did perk up at te Greek mythology hades part!!!

[LazerRays]

Oh I reread your comment.... Um... Where are you basing this info off of? In my belief it clearly states there is a hell. And whoever does not know Christ in earth will not be known in judgement. He wouldn't be a child of god and will be cast in the lake of fire...

[angel]

The lake of fire symbolizes eternal destruction. They are, as I said, gone forever.
If you were thrown into a literal lake of fire, do you think you would stay in torment forever?
It would be over before you hit the actual flames.
What I am basing this on is a forty year study of the Bible.

[LazerRays]

Sir. Not to be rude or anything but do you think the god that controls Satan has the power to let you be tortured for eternity? Daniel 12:2,3 states that you either go to heaven or hell. There isn't anything else. Same with Matthew 25:46, John 5:28, and revelation 20:14, 15
and hell is a continuous torment. Matthew 13:50 states this. Also mark 9:48 and revelation 14:10
it's also irreversible- (rev 14:11, rev 20:14, rev 20:15)
Sigh...

[angel]

Of course God has the power to torture you forever. He just wouldn't.Study the Bible in context, and you will understand that hell is not literal fire or a torture chamber. Instead, fire is used as a metaphor to describe a very real horror – eternal separation from God and all that is good. According to scholar William Crockett, there are many reasons why the image of fire is not literal, and why they point to a hell that is horrible, but not a torture chamber full of fire and demons.
Just being eternally separated from God...that is the hellish thing.
In Jesus’ day thousands of animals were sacrificed every week in the Temple, and there was a sewage system for the blood and fat to flow outside, where it gathered in a pool. There were worms constantly ingesting that. It was a very ugly place…when Jesus (and presumably Isaiah as well) was teaching, he used this metaphor as a way of saying hell is worse than that disgusting place outside the city.”[11]

There is also a connection between burning in hell and the Valley of Hinnom, where children were at one time burned as a sacrifice to the Ammonite god Molech (2 Kings 23:10; Jer. 7:31; 32:35). Jeremiah would even go on to say that the valley would become the place of God’s judgment. People would later burn their garbage in this valley by using sulfur. The Hebrew name for the valley is ge-hinnom and this evolved into gehenna which is the Greek word for hell. Thus the image of that horrible place was used for hell.[12] It is clear from these references that the Jews were using places around Jerusalem to give the people a way of thinking about how horrible hell would be.
Fire and torment is used to describe something that is horrible for a person: life without God. Theologian J.I. Packer mentions the common way that scholars describe hell:

“Loss of all good, all pleasure, all rest, and all hope; exclusion from God’s [favor] and exposure to his anger; remorse, frustration, fury, despair; self-hate as a form of self-absorption; introversion to the point of idiocy.”

This is why Jesus said “there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 13:49-50). Theologian Millard Erickson mentions that hell is banishment from God and that loneliness and hopelessness will overtake the person while there.[14] The minds of unbelievers will be tormented “by the assurance of their hopeless spiritual plight, which will result in extreme depression…The psychological notion of suffering is enforced by the uses of these words (like torment) in chapter 18 of Revelation, where they are joined with ‘weeping’ and ‘mourning.’”
Randy Alcorn, in his book on heaven, says of hell.

“Because God is the source of all good, and Hell is the absence of God, Hell must also be the absence of all good. Likewise, community, fellowship, and friendship are good, rooted in the triune God himself. But in the absence of God, Hell will have no community, no camaraderie, no friendship. I don’t believe Hell is a place where demons take delight in punishing people and where people commiserate over their fate. More likely, each person is in solitary confinement, just as the rich man is portrayed alone in Hell (Luke 16:22-23. Misery loves company, but there will be nothing to love in Hell.”
In my opinion, the arguments made for a metaphorical view of the fires of hell is very convincing. The fact that the Jewish audience of Jesus would have viewed fire as non-literal, and the fact that Jesus and the writers of the Bible used conflicting language (darkness and fire) point to the great possibility that hell is not a torture chamber full of fire. Some Christians may think that this view makes hell not as bad, but the fire is used to convey a message to the reader that something horrible awaits them in hell. In fact, fire represents something that is worse than fire: separation from God and a completely meaningless life. I also do not think that this is an issue that should divide Christians. Whether or not fire is literal, hell is a very real place that will last forever.

[LazerRays]

Sorry. But I'll take the scripture over any human scholar anyday. I prefer my scripture a it is and not twisted into figuratives. So I'll leave you to studying metaphors...

[Coyote Poetry]

Powerful poetry and thoughts shared. A Dante's inferno journey in your words.
"Fallen angels and risen demons,
See the future where I lay screaming,
My life has turned into this paradox,
Burnt halo rings and charred prison locks"
I liked the above lines. In a life, we will dance with the devil and find salvation if we are lucky. Thank you Sarah for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[LazerRays]

Thank you for stopping by coyote!!! Yes, we've all had our littke dance with the devil but hopefully I turn out fine :) thanks for the review!

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome Sarah. I love your work.

[Chris Shaw]

Imaginativeand well expressed lines. The world is full of demons, but then I have met plenty of angels too. Hope all is good with you Sarah.

Chris

[LazerRays]

I'm ok :) I just wanted to write a feeling I had
thanks for stopping by!

[Chris Shaw]

Good to hear you are OK, and you are welcome.

[LazerRays]

Thanks for checking btw, because even though I'm fine that means a lot that you bothered to care :3

[Relic]

If you watch the news you will see a new demon every night. They don't mind being the way they are, they think they already are in hell.

[LazerRays]

Yeah. This world is full of them. It's sad. Thanks for reviewing!