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I laugh as I think of it now, the dire warnings of hell Nothing could scare me it didn’t matter, on this teaching I never did dwell. I wondered why one dark night, again begging for sleep. No fear of death of dying no foolish promises to keep. It was then I found the answer as I slipped down through the floor Could this be a dream or am I now no more. Has death come upon me, I feel the air exude from my chest Through eons of time yet seconds, maybe days or years at best. Before me an evil thing but there are no brimstone and flames “Now we will see this hell you mocked and you will know my name. You never flinched about the hell threat but you are now here Not only that I am your father and now you will know real fear.” He breathed in deep; my skin scorched, it left my body in one piece The agonies, I must be dead my skin floating in front just like a fleece My muscles sinews and skeleton were all that I now had “I thought you were my father I screamed you can’t treat me this bad.” A thousand legions of devils all came round mocking me Each breath they turned my way seemed to rip parts off of me “You will learn to master them but until then you have to pay You start at the bottom in this work.” then the hounds of hell did bay. “To inflict the tortures required to give me the satisfaction You must first suffer them all, that is my attraction. When you have suffered them all you will know what to do My work will be in your hands this is my legacy to you.” “But how can you be my father?” I screamed as the hell hounds tore at me “My mother was the sweetest woman on earth and all around could see.” “Ha! I am the devil why would I want a whore, They are already down here; it was sweetness I searched for.” “Your mother scorned me, she did not believe in all the hellish games I play So I showed her my powers and you are with me from this day. You should have listened to the teachers teaching of my home called hell.” He waved his finger at me and the screams I could not quell. Now I wish I had listened and taken an earthly fear It could have made a difference, I may not now be here. I take delight in dismembering and gouging out the eyes Flaying the skin off the ungodly, yet I do it for a prize. One day I will rule this place then my turn will come I’ll leave this underworld one day and do what my father has done I’ll take a woman for my wife the sweetest there ever walked And pass on my inheritance to the offspring that hell balked. ©~GG~23/07/2012
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