How bad is Hell?
You think you know
How bad it will be
When you base your expectation on
How bad things are
But it must be worse than you know
For it to be a place you’ll never want to go
How bad is Hell?
It’s like Heaven…
Heaven must be better than you can imagine
It must be A better place than you know
It must be THE best place
For you to want to go
How good is Heaven?
Is this the place you’re afraid to be…
Is this the place you long to be…
How bad is Hell?
How good is Heaven?
To some it is as bad as Saigon in Vietnam
As Port Au Prince in Haiti
As New Orleans in Louisiana
As Mound Bayou in Mississippi
Or the camps in Germany
The Trail of Tears in America
Soweto in South Africa
Or The Middle Passage across the Atlantic
Or the Cape Coast Castle called Elmiña
Sometimes, when I bow my head to pray,
I could hear a faint doubting voice say,
“What’s the use?”
And then I wonder,
“Is this how bad?
How bad Hell is?”
But then there are other days,
When everything goes well
And everything is “perfect”
And I’d say,
“Is this how good?”
“How good Heaven is?”
Other times
Things can look bad – real bad
or things can feel good – real good
and it makes me wonder,
How bad is Hell?
How good is Heaven?
But that’s this life
Hell is not this life
Heaven is not this life
They are both beyond this life
We cannot comprehend Hell
Through our pain filter
Or our emotional tolerance threshold
We can at best dilute Heaven
Through our subjective perception
Of what “good” is
When there is only One who is – GOOD
How can one ever know
Until it is too late to change the status
Or the location?
And then it would be inconceivable to share
beyond the gulf between this reality and that,
and impossible to say…
Do you prefer to wait
And find out
Or would you rather be sure
Never to know
How Bad is Hell?
And see
How Good is Heaven?
By Tobias Pace © 2012
