Inferno
Once, I touched heavens
How? I don’t know
Why? An impulse perhaps
To share my joy
In a rare moment of delight
When clouds on canvas
Painted white on deepest blue
I gazed into sky and opened my arms
To embrace the universe
Threw my hands in the air
And sprinkled an invisible water into sky
As the saints do to bless the sinners
Suddenly, sky became ill
Blue turned gray, white grew dark
And the vicious brush of wind
Rendered a morbid image
Before my bewildered eyes
The innocent clouds collided
The he air heated like the sun
Then the ravaging thunder ignited it all
And the dark wind blew
The blazing clouds crashed
A harmonic devastation
Heaven was on fire
Then the rain came
My desperate hope to quench the thirst
Of hatred and despair, to calm the anger
Yet, from the blazing clouds nothing rained
but fire
Huge columns of flames welded heavens to
earth
The tragedy spread everywhere
I started it all. A cardinal sin I’d committed
In one moment of joy when I shared my
delight
I’m burning in desire to tell the truth, alas
Who can ever believe my story?
With whom can I ever share my pain?
Who can ever be impartial at my trial?
What punishment can ever fit my crime?
Once, I touched heavens
How? I don’t know
Why? An impulse perhaps
To share my joy
In a rare moment of delight
When clouds on canvas
Painted white on deepest blue
I gazed into sky and opened my arms
To embrace the universe
Threw my hands in the air
And sprinkled an invisible water into sky
As the saints do to bless the sinners
Suddenly, sky became ill
Blue turned gray, white grew dark
And the vicious brush of wind
Rendered a morbid image
Before my bewildered eyes
The innocent clouds collided
The he air heated like the sun
Then the ravaging thunder ignited it all
And the dark wind blew
The blazing clouds crashed
A harmonic devastation
Heaven was on fire
Then the rain came
My desperate hope to quench the thirst
Of hatred and despair, to calm the anger
Yet, from the blazing clouds nothing rained
but fire
Huge columns of flames welded heavens to
earth
The tragedy spread everywhere
I started it all. A cardinal sin I’d committed
In one moment of joy when I shared my
delight
I’m burning in desire to tell the truth, alas
Who can ever believe my story?
With whom can I ever share my pain?
Who can ever be impartial at my trial?
What punishment can ever fit my crime?