"Stairway To Hell"

Stairway To Hell.

A sad story repeated to me at the orphanage
this teenager in a dream seeing a scene
stern her father staring, screaming,
scolding his own dad, too old
stumbling with a cane,
helplessly hoping
trying to help
her baby,
suckling for life
wrapped in a robe.
Cold the cobblestones
the guard dog lying frozen,
so afraid of the crow flying down
to her mother, her sad face in disgrace
behind the parapet of the stone wall hiding.

There a stairway to hell and burning
the devil dancing the father to hurt
his wife, child and baby daughter.
The grandfather weeping away -
“Why was my son ever born
that I may damn him now,
never more in my mind
will I see him again
forgotten now.”

What say thee who read this in tears?
The sins of men for their pleasure,
bound in evil to swear and curse
Gabriel the angel with his sword.
May he strike with vengeance
destroying evil of existence,
vanishing into fragments.
The devils hell burning
into nothingness.