Joshua's Perpetual Torment

This is just a fictional story I put into verse. The first canto is actually a separate poem I used because of how well it fit for an introduction. The original description was too long for this box.

Joshua's Forgiveness?

"Dear Father--

Where do I begin?


I don’t have much longer


May I confess my sins?

I am a terrible man


Who abused his power


Killed the men and raped the women


That were kept prisoner in the tower

I led my forces--


Into this city


Hacking and slashing from our horses--


Leaving our names and yours bloody

But now I’m wounded

And my blood is running


My chest was pounded


And now death is coming"

I can feel myself slip

I feel your forgiving arms


My mortal head is starting to dip


I’m free from humanity’s harm

Judgement Day

Rising before the gates--

I look at what I've died for

Worth in beauty I cannot begin to estimate

Bliss fills my core

"Father"--I uttered with the utmost respect

"My son"--God responded with a nudge of hate

"All you've done--lusted and murdered--no one you protect"

"I killed in your name and spread your word" I began to debate

"You have no place among my angels--Hell calls your name"

"But Father!--Why give me this shame?"

"My son Joshua--you spilled innocence--fed your own damning greed--

Countless dead to fuel your dying deed"

I began to descend--

Paradise above just out of reach

A god I died for-forsaking me "Curse you!--Almighty I would once defend!"

As ire sucked my happiness like a leech

A profound fire grew within

Waiting for my scorching torture to begin--

"Father help!" I began to cry and pray

"I will never again be lead astray!"

God ignored my pleas

Throwing away his wretched son

Pushing me away with subtle ease

My sentence to Hell has just begun

I reside in Seventh Circle--Violence

I am forced to burn

Where was my conscience?--

When my morality began to turn

"Damn you whose name cannot be known!"--

I shrieked in the midst of burning

"I must escape and reclaim what should be my own"--

I thought yearning

Inner Evils Lurking

After many years--of torture and pain

I escaped--Looking for my way

"I will not have died in vain"--

I began to say without a seconds delay

After trekking through to where Lucifer resides--

My stomach began twisting--at the thought of when I died

Hammered and stabbed--leaving me in suffering

I began to feel my fists tightening

"What brings you to me?"

Lucifer said flying my direction

"I came for the strength of a deity"--

I said awaiting his cunning deception

"This power--I will grant"

As he lays his hand upon my shoulder

My mind--being filled with evil--feeling my conscious being bent

Every fiber now turned colder

"Kill in my name--

And this power will remain"

I felt like a wild animal--far from tame

"He will not forsake me again"

Heaven's Hell

Glorious sight--Elevated utopia of gold


Bring forth demons legions to slaughter--And destroy their stronghold


“Incipit Satan!”--Was their battle cry


As they climbed in altitude forth--Golden gates now cannot deny

Torn down-Heaven’s gates, so tall


Ravaging tranquility--like Eden’s downfall


Angels impaled--Archangels reduced


Defenses failed--Seraphim seduced

Sword drawn in hand

To defile this holy land

Joshua charges forth

To slay the angels like the men from the north

Arriving before the throne--in a rage

Coming as the unholy conquerer of this age

Hacking and spilling blood in promiscuous laps

Leaving God in his belittled seat trapped

Little words were spoken-- as he plunged his blade through his chest

"You’re reign is done fool." Was said slaying his maker like the rest

He threw the body down--and took seat on the throne

"I'll rule Heaven in the image of Hell as my own."

Catharsis

After many years--

Joshua realized what he had done

He shed pure tears

Losing after he had won

Walking past the demolished gates--

And the many dead that lie inside

Being filled with the strongest self hate

Inner evil and good collide

Something is rekindled--

Tears of pain wiped away with the hands of love

Searing hatred began to dwindle

From my knees--wide eyed--I saw God above

Author's Note

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