Hell
A poem about the nature of what causes pain, heartache and suffering.
Hell is where your thought of hell is.
Hell is in indecision.
Hell is in thoughtlessness.
Hell is in derision.
Hell is in supremacy.
Hell is in oppression.
Hell is in separation.
Hell is in regression.
Hell is in the hard line.
Hell is in the hard heart.
Hell is in the cold truth.
Hell is just the start.
Hell is in the silent torment,
In a world that is coming undone.
Hell is in the inner war,
And sometimes in the home.
Hell is in the sideways look.
Hell is in the cold hard stare.
Hell is in everything that is hard to take,
It is in everything that is hard to bear.
Hell is in the silence and secret,
Hell is everywhere.
Hell is the unquestioned lie,
And giving in to bullies.
Hell is not knowing what to do.
Hell is feeling foolish.
Hell is seeing nothing change,
No matter how hard you try.
Hell is in the heartache
Of crying when your eyes are dry.
Hell is when no one is listening.
Hell is not being heard.
Hell is fighting so long and hard
You no longer know what you are fighting,
You know longer know who you are fighting,
You know longer know why you are fighting,
You are just fighting,
Yourself, everyone, everything, all the time.
Hell is being triumphant,
At the expense of someone else’s pain.
Hell is hurting so badly
You don’t know if you will ever be right again.
Hell is taking the short road
And finding the longer road was faster.
Hell is putting everything into people
And finding that it is all blasted.
Hell is growing old
With nothing you can do.
Hell is having to navigate life
Without a bloody clue.
Hell is all life’s deaf and blind bonds
And not knowing what you’ll find.
Like Joy is in the detail,
Hell is in the big stuff,
Too big and too tough to handle.
Hell is no smooth and too much rough.
Hell is the heavy mantle.
Hell is in the crushing weight
Of duty’s prickly burden.
Hell is being trapped
With nowhere at all to turn.
Hell is in the racing mind
That cannot find it’s rest.
Hell is not being enough
Even when you are being your best.
Hell is being forced to pick a side
When neither choice is good.
Hell is being the only one
Holding back the flood.
Hell is walking blind through life
And looking for a sign.
Hell is love that’s hard to find.
Hell is in the mind.
