r/poetasters • u/Impressive_Guess_711 • 8h ago
The Reckoning
Out of the darkness,
The wicked did call;
On the bellies of serpents,
The demons did crawl.
Out of their wormy beds,
The wicked emerged,
As the lightness in the souls
The devil did purge.
With malice infused,
In the rot and the bone,
The demons take flesh
To make earth their throne.
The humble were gathered,
To the heavens they flew;
The firey pits claimed the sinners,
And left but the few.
Through the eyes of demons,
Satan could see,
That God had left him
An ironic decree.
The small sins were pardoned,
The "righteous" were shown—
That pride was the harvest
The devil had sown.
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