Heaven and Hell



What comes next
After the final darkness falls
Does it stay dark forever
Is that the Hell for us all

A never-ending nightfall
A slumber to forever sleep
A lonely ship that sails to nowhere
And has a soul to keep

Do we cross a bridge to nothing
Over a river deep and wide
Of tears that fall through darkness
About choices left behind

May Angels embrace us sweetly
And bring us to the light
Terrifying and loving in equal measure
As we see both our wrongs and our rights
 
Before we find our Eden
Is the jury made of one
Or at the end, do we join our Creator
And judge together all that we have done

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Musings on what happens after we die

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Written on January 25, 2022

Submitted by Terrilou on January 26, 2022

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAB BCXC XXXX XXAX DDAD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 601
Words 123
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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Terri McCallister is a Texas based poet. She has been published in "Beyond Haiku" Women Pilots Write Poetry. She is currently working on works of fiction, and always, another poem! more…

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