A/N: I know the words used and images conveyed here are striking and fierce, but even this is probably grossly inadequate to describe the horrors of eternal death in Hell. I want no part of it, either for me or anyone else. But the Word of God does not mince words about our state without the redeeming blood of Jesus. We should in fact burn for our sins and rebellion, but Jesus provides a way out, or more accurately, the way out. I wrote this a few years back at a time when I had drifted from God. Thankfully, He draws us back.

I Should Burn

I can already feel

the embers growing

the oxygen blowing

the flames destroying

I can already taste

the choking smoke

the ashen dust

the pillowing soot

I can already see

the fiery pit

forever lit

human torches

in writhing fits

Now I am running

like an antelope from the flames

to the only

firebreak that remains

And I bow before the

Cross of my beloved Lamb

who smothers the flames to death

and applies the healing balm

to restore life again