Lake of Fire...................................~Wise

Temperatures soar and skin drips.
Water hiding from parched lips.
Hopes on high in despair slips.
Absent now the whimsical quips.

Eyes are shaded by a hand.
Weary feet drag upon the land.
Skin is stung by blowing sand.
All things work like a bad plan.

In every direction perilous paths.
Mercilous land offering its bath.
Trials unkind in personified wrath.
Eternal torment in unmeasured math.

Tear the robe singing death's song.
Tortured end will not be long.
Pay the price for being wrong.
We are weak but He is strong.

Trail comes to the Lake of Fire.
Was this place the mortal desire?
Lazarous' Well denies the liar.
Ears can hear the wailing choir.

Mercy denied for water cool.
Such a life played like a fool.
Absent the lesson of the Golden Rule.
All talent was a useless tool.

Prophetic writings gave all heed.
Refrain from taking Eden's seed.
Turn your heart from evil deeds.
Accept the love that is your need.

Awaken with horror's scream.
Reality unsure of what is seen.
Was it real or was it a dream.
How to have my heart clean?

Help me Lord you to know.
Teach me God the message old.
Heal my heart and save my soul.
Before I die....give you control.

* I was inspired by actually seeing a homeless man who was holding a very well made sign that he affixed to his chest. It read in big letters "Repent" and underneath it "For all have sinned". Even when offered money, considering his appeared condition, he refused it. I dreamed of him again.....so forgive my own extraction of the dream and this simple man.

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