What Lies Beneath

A Poem by chandlerl

What will your imprint on this earth be?

What are you doing with your life,
is it something good?
Something wholesomely and undoubtedly worthy
to leave your imprint on this earth?
Will is make people happy? sad? angry?
To see the corruption,
the unsavory taste of truth?
Show the youth
what to and not to do
be an example
of how the best of intentions
with a sneaky underhanded serve
has led this beautiful world, astray.
Into the darkness.
How even those
who have once been thought good enough to enter the gates of heaven
are now condemned, to drink,
from the fires of the lake of hell.
Left to wonder through the flames
the billowing, putrid smoke.
You may be shown the way to the light,
but it's so far out of reach.
You're so incredibly genuine
because I see what's underneath.