Poems (Rumell)/What is hell
WHAT IS HELL
Who is it tells us, there is no hell?Only he, to whom real suffering has never come.Not the dis-ease and pain the body knows so well.But the anguish and despair that makes the soul dumb!
To know, that behind you, long years have unrolled,Taking life's greatest touch-stone, enthusiastic, youth,With it's opportunities and possibilities untold,While you walked blinded, by the glamor, to life's truth!
Not-to know, if long years, or short, lie before you,In which you must grow in leaps, to hear, "It is well"To feel, you cannot crowd All, into the years now due you,Surely the soul can never know, a greater Hell!
I am sure Hell cannot be material fire and burning,For too many, suffer Hell's full measure, here on earth.And when we are called by Death, beyond Life's curtain,What is there left to burn, beyond that birth?
While we may not understand, all this life has meant,Just as sure as Christ said, that Heaven within doth dwell,And that this life, was but a moment, from Eternity lent,Just that sure am I, we need only look within, for our Hell!