"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."
* Translation: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." - Dante Alighieri's Inferno (III, 9)
The torment of hell is to live isolated from the God denied in life.
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I laughed, I smiled, No God, No God I cried
What right, what wrong I blurred what felt as one
Mire mixed with pleasure all life til I died
A lamb, a lion stood, one called the Son
"You goat move left! Now bow and bend your knee!"
My fate was set, I knew now I was done
"No God, No God", I cried, "Show grace to me!"
Too late I knew as his eyes looked away
My hope was lost, I could not be set free
Bound, chained to my sinful depraved lost way
My sense was numb, ears were deaf, eyes were blind
No more pompous haughty words would I say
Into the pit in which I would be confined
In black, I moved silent and all alone
Darkness over shadowed me from behind
No light but flame consumed my skin and bone
Tortured I burned alive isolated
Never to see God who reigned on his throne
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