Heaven & Hell



Do your words sharpen,
  as your feelings dull

Do your actions harken,
  what’s still to cull

Do your wheels spin faster,
  as you sink in place

Does the meaning retreat,
  as you blindly chase

Do your moments forecast
  or serve to remind

Does the past just bookmark
  what your future declines

Does the master you serve
  in false prophecy dwell

Do you still have the choice
  —between Heaven and Hell  

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 05, 2019

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Scheme AB AB XC XC XX XX XD XD X
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Characters 430
Words 74
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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