Fire and Brimstone

Surrounded by the scent of 

Fire and brimstone, 

Closed in by darkness

Awash and alone

Stars and black voids 

Swirl ‘round my head

Succumbing to loss

My limbs like lead

As the body abates

And the heart swells

I balance between Heavens

And fire washed Hells

The life I have lived

Less than I’d planned

Highlights my weakness 

As glowing coal fanned

Aflame and alone

Darkness now spent

Fire and Brimstone

Surrounded by scent

I pass from this world

Into oblivion beyond

Wishing a return

To choice filled dawn

That I may reverse this 

Hell damning throng

With one more chance

To right the wrong

Weights on the scale 

Which judge my soul

And rebalance my days

That I may die whole

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