Dante's BeastA Poem by LilithDianaClioThis poem was inspired by Dante's InfernoYou have yours, and I have mine upon this pain, we must dine Two souls bound by inevitable fate to forever endure the angel’s hate And to stay away from those who might not believe in the eternal plight For only those who’ve never known a day of struggle a day of pain would taunt us in our shame. For you know the beast forever prowls, and only the strange ones, go into its mouth and when they finally do come out, they’re filled with sorrow hate and shame And they see the world in a different grain. As a dark and desolate, demented plain. In which we all boil in the blood, and unlike Noah there’s no escape from the flood. For we’re all corrupted, and we’re all evil and deep down we’re all non-believers. And when the day comes, that we leave this hell and go to yours; the one of which Dante tells we’ll find it’s not so different, it’s just the same. We’re all still wallowing in our own personal pain, and God dines alone at his dinner table. Laughing and making merry, about the fabled heaven of which the Bible tells But we shall never hear its bells. © 2014 LilithDianaClioAuthor's Note
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Added on November 21, 2014 Last Updated on November 21, 2014 Tags: Dante, poem, poetry, religion, death, existentialism, Christianity Author
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