Friday, October 23, 2015

Donal Mahoney- A Poem


Lake of Fire

It’s not the beach.
It’s a lake of fire,
if it's there.

That lake we 
heard about in 
Sunday School,
the eternal flame.

Unlike the others
it won’t flame out
at the end of time,
if it’s there.

Those who say it's there 
believe we all line up 
as goats or sheep
on one side or the other.
This sounds crazy
unless it’s true.

The sheep go with Him,
believers say, after the goats
are in the lake, sizzling.
This may take awhile
because goats will buck 
as they did in life 

until the angels lift 
them overhead and 
plunge them into 
the lake of fire,
if it's there.

That lake we 
heard about in 
Sunday School,
the eternal flame.

Unlike the others
it won’t flame out
at the end of time,
if it’s there.



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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
 

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