The Road Out of Hell

The Road Out of Hell Went to see the Priest one Fall Saturday Time to rejoin the Church...Live the Christian way Father shocked me when he said my Mother was going to die I wanted to cry Deep down I wanted to hit him For telling me my future was grim His advice to me was find a wife Start your own life Stop hanging on to your Mom Stop fighting with you Brother Tom I left not liking what he had to say His hard words made me stray Well Father was right Mom died one cold February night I decided then it was God I would fight Darkness falls...Absence of Light I soon learned fighting with the Creator is a sin So I stopped my fight and turned to Gin The more I drank The lower I sank Depression and Drink put you on the Road to Hell Sad to say you may even hear your own Death Bell Somehow I stopped drinking and started writing The more I wrote the less I felt like fighting It took a long time But I learned how to write lines that rhymed And I thank God for lifting my Depression Spell By allowing me to find my way to The Road Out of Hell Joseph Adam Elward