Alas, Gehenna

First descent had every bone crushed, as a true descent must do. Second descent was of a toxin placed neither by devil nor god. Third descent, fourth, and beyond, were of increasingly greater craft and increasingly greater uncertainty. I lay in the soil, assimilated into the common grave of mankind. I vanished into the worms, the stench ought to have killed me, yet abjectly I survived. And thereafter I saw the hereafter, and I would not withstand the finality of Gehenna's flames. In a deathly moment of failure, I returned from the grave, for I hadn't the might to remain. 6th September 2018