My Time Spent In Hell. by R.M. Engelhardt

There are alot

Of poets & writers

Musicians & artists

Serial killers & lawyers

Who will all tell you

That they've seen 

Or been to

Hell

Because

Someone sinned

Someone murdered

Someone made a deal

With Lucifer at

The crossroads

But then got

The raw end

Of it &

Got ass fucked

Instead of money 

Or fame

After they threw

Out a few Latin 

Words over a

Necronomicon or

Some book about 

The Law they

 Never read

Or knew exactly

What it meant

Or maybe

 They played

With the ouija 

Board instead

A tarot deck or

Cranked heavy death

Metal in their

Bedroom sacrificing

Their assholes up

Or masturbating 

To Donald Trump

By themselves

Alone

But y'see

The powers that

Be just don't

Work quite like that

They've gone

Corporate and

These days they

Wear plaid &

Nice suits &

Ties they shave

And  follow

The Dow & the 

Stock Market 

Eat healthy & 

All work out

Down at the gym

After a long 

Days work of

Ripping off the

Old & the poor

And the sick

Looking

As pleasant

As Mr. Rogers

Or a politician

But me?

 These days

I'm just another

Poet with a pen

Who believes in

Old school, old fashioned

Evil who once signed

His name in blood 

On the dotted line

But who escaped

From that prison

Shortly thereafter

I learned

The universal truth

And of what makes

This world go round

And round

Words

&

Music

Prayers

& 

Hope

&

Love

Take away love        

And the earth 

Becomes a tomb

And that

Is the real hell

Incarnate

With no salvation

Or a miracle happening

Anytime soon

So I suggest

That you get

Out their & fight

The powers of

Evil yourself

Because

No one is

Going to 

Save you

In the end

Talon (R.M. Engelhardt) is a poet/author minister who over the last 20 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review & many others. He currently lives & writes in upstate NY where he hosts a monthly open mic called “The Troy Poetry Mission”

http://www.rmengelhardt.com