INTO HELL

Ascending and turning to the right I shield my eyes to the horrors before me.

I don’t want to look but I know what is there – it is the unbegotten,

all swirling in flames, flesh falling from their burning bones.

Writhing in eternal damnation. Am I to become one, or am I to watch from the edge of hell as they burn? I am being drawn into this vision, this nemesis of death.

I have no hope, only pity for my victims and myself. Here is where I belong in Hades amongst the nightmares and pain of forever; but I am privileged to watch and to remember all of the pain, hatred and anger.

For I am a man, a mortal man who is responsible for the suffering of his fellow humans because it is so easy to cause them pain.