Hell is Where They Will Reside

[110 words]

(After an impassioned speech by Vice-President Joe Biden on Sept. 3, 2014)

“Hell is where they will reside,”
Is said of vile and violent men,
By powerful heads who themselves divide,
And seek to rule again.

Hell was made for the father of lies,
And all who follow his rebel path;
The place where man eternally dies
And feels God’s holy wrath.

Of Hell our Savior often spoke,
He knows the danger beyond the grave;
From darkness, pain, and fiery smoke
Would Jesus utterly save.

His followers work, not to destroy,
But speak a word of truth to restore;
Hell is real, so forces deploy
To open heaven’s door.

J. Randal Matheny
Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
via cloudburstpoetry.com