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A Beating Heart

Stop and start

A beating heart

Boil my blood

Burn my skin

Free my ashes

Hellfire within

 

This dead soul consumed

By a vengeful world

No heaven or hell

Eternal purgatory

Living cost

So much more

Than death

 

Strike fear

Into them

Make them good

Because they fear

Retribution

Judgement will come

Did you pay your dues?

 

Sins wrapped in shadows

The darkness within

Slips out the cracks

Turning innocence out

Guilty pleasures

Everyday trangressions

Just one more

The promise of tomorrow

Be redeemed

Pray to be forgiven

 

False perfection

Surface beauty

A shining beacon

Blinding saintliness

A matyr to the cause

By living purely

Give not onto temptation

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Written by
dreamsmith
Published
Aug 20, 2017
Lines·Words
37·109
Notes

I wrote this after reading a former friend's poem "Buried Alive." This poem, as well as his other ones, can be found on beelzeblog.wordpress.com if you're interested in checking it out.

My thoughts on this is some people are "good" because they fear being bad and getting sent to hell, versus being good because they want to be good.

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