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 splashed 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
Painted a morbid image
Before my bewildered eyes
The lightning thrashed among the innocent clouds
The air heated like the sun
Then the ravaging thunder ignited it all
And exploded the giant clouds
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, but
Who can ever believe my story?
With whom can I ever share my pain?
Who can ever be impartial at my trial?
And 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 splashed 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
Painted a morbid image
Before my bewildered eyes
The lightning thrashed among the innocent clouds
The air heated like the sun
Then the ravaging thunder ignited it all
And exploded the giant clouds
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, but
Who can ever believe my story?
With whom can I ever share my pain?
Who can ever be impartial at my trial?
And what punishment can ever fit my crime?