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Awesomely Awful Poetry

Let me tell you of the day that never came.

The one we thought we’d see

So soon after the night.

Night of fire, day of searing light

That burned all the sinners

All of us,

And dragged us all to hell.

Hell.

Always hot and dry

We can’t wait until it freezes over

Freezes all of them.

All of us.

No more stench of charred flesh

No more black and crumbling bodies

With dry water eyes.

But the day never came

When we’d beg for water-

Ice.

Something other than

The lava forced down our throats on a daily basis.

We are tired of this!

No more, never ever, ever never forever will we

Finish burning

In Hell.

But we never did now did we?

The day never came, and

We

Are forever living.

Maybe more a torture than fire and brimstone.

But the day won’t come when it will all end

Or has it come already and this is our eternal punishment

For being sinners,

Sacrilegious in the way we moved.

And in hell we trudge up hills of spike rock

Carrying boulders the size of pandas with the attitudes of great whites

And all the stripes and teeth of rabid tigers,

Jagged claws of koalas and the ability to scent fear like no other animal can

And they are always afraid

All of us

That maybe one day

the day will come

and we will burn.

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momo
Egyptian
Published
Nov 15, 2012
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