HELLO NEAR TH'ERE

HELLO NEAR TH'ERE


I was tempted by the Devil,
Who dwells beneath our feet;
Presented poison choices,
That I drank in fair deceit.

Corrupting mortal senses,
To provoke once lucid mind;
Parlay knavish bargains,
For a soul to pay in kind.

Pray a god that made us,
Concede to love us so;
But condemn us to abide with,
His exiled ghastly foe.

Decreed the land we live on,
Was neighbour to his lair;
Subterranean and tyrant,
A malevolent au-pair.

Why send a child so naked?
To a garden vast and cold;
Near fires of hell alluring,
Where accords exchange for gold.

So I sat in Satans parlour,
On throne with edges charred;
And marked my sanguine pledges,
With insouciant regard.

The fault was self inflicted,
And Lucifer so wise;
His advocate assured me,
The Devil never lies.

Now two score years in future,
The injunction absolute;
My charge is here upon me,
Though it’s just a short commute.

If the weapon that’s contingent,
To repel indentured woe;
Is a faith to just believe it,
I’m afraid my answers, No!

Why is it incumbent?
On I that hast not seen;
A deity, so fickle,
Crave love or spurned will lien.

So my failing is your making,
The truth is what I see;
But I do believe in demons,
They have shown themselves to me.