litany for unrepentants
hell is a
mobius Autobahn
and you must walk every
glass-and-rusty-nail-covered mile
barefoot and alone.
hell is waking up
in a sweat to a
cold, silent bedroom
with
no
body
around for miles.
hell is going to sleep
in a bed the size of a room
and a house the size of a country
and there is only your ego to share your pillow with.
NOTE: "hell" comes from the hebrew word "sheol", which means literally "grave". hell is not a place of literal fire and brimstone or some guy with horns and a pitchfork in red pajamas; it is a state of being purely alone with yourself for all eternity. it is death, separation from everything else but yourself. just you, yourself, and nothingness.
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I've shared my pillow with my ego many a night. Not a nice bedfellow.
ReplyDeleteInteresting take on hell, too. I've heard other people give similar interpretations. Have you read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis? It's a great allegory about heaven and hell.
yes, i really liked his take on it as well. it was pretty interesting! he was a pretty bright feller.
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