The question eternal,
What lay beyond the infinite night?
I peer Heavenward for the answer,
Pleading for an omnipotent retort,
Never to be realized.
~~
On bended knee,
With hands grasped in prayer,
I have asked for absolution.
Hoping that there is life for me,
Beyond this earthly Hell.
~~
Surely there must be more,
How cruel the joke,
Were Heaven the fodder of fairytales.
This must not be,
I refuse to succumb to disbelief!
~~
This night I will read the Book,
Comforting myself in it’s inspiration,
Denouncing the wickedness of my sins.
By immersion in the prose of Psalm 51,
Praying for the cleansing of my soul.
~~
I will not surrender faith,
To the folly of Satan’s game,
Committing myself to his depths of despair.
Surely this mustn’t be my destiny,
If I am to be a child of the everlasting God.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Dom DiFrancesco 
This reminds me of a poem by an African American poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He wonders similarly about the existence of heaven and hell. (teen memory so may not have it exactly right.)
There is a heaven
for ever, day by day
the upward longing of my soul
doth tell me so.
There is a hell
I’m just as sure.
For pray, if there were not,
where would my neighbors go.
All the best. ;-)
Thank you so much and all the best to you as well. I am not familiar with Paul Lawrence Dunbar, but I will look him up. Thanks again. :)
Wow. This is really powerful.
Thank you, I really appreciate the nice comment.
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