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
Explosion in the giant clouds
The dark wind blew
The blazing clouds clashed
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 heaven to earth
A tragedy everywhere
I started it all.
A cardinal sin I’d committed
In a moment of joy
When I shared my delight
I’m burning in desire
To tell the whole truth
Yet
Who can ever believe this story?
With whom can I ever share the 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 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
Explosion in the giant clouds
The dark wind blew
The blazing clouds clashed
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 heaven to earth
A tragedy everywhere
I started it all.
A cardinal sin I’d committed
In a moment of joy
When I shared my delight
I’m burning in desire
To tell the whole truth
Yet
Who can ever believe this story?
With whom can I ever share the pain?
Who can ever be impartial at my trial?
What punishment can ever fit my crime?