heavenly decay

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jonathan sheppard
www.allhailchief.com

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Los Angeles

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton from Comus

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ods greatest Seraphim in haste

Warned his Lord of a disgrace Something impossible in this glorious place A place where no fallacy suborned No lie has been told or sojourned 6 And only one evil born

ord I preface my comments with complete obedience

I would not dare question God Or your divine will But his reward is Heaven for his devious transience? My Lord, that determines this place fraud 12 The cells of Hell many good souls fill But their righteousness was denied here And one unworthy of creation, a soul fated corrupt Is allowed to bask in the Light of Good? When I observed this derelict on Glory Road Near the Stairway to Heaven I felt this horror abrupt 18 This sensation has interminably vital persistence Sick because this decaying, reckless, foul model of existence Is being allowed to share in our sustenance? Allowed the company of our supreme countenance? Allowed to eat from our orchards and bathe in our fountains? Forgive me God but I have only known humans to feel the same 24 Anger and rage were the sensations I know I felt They are what I know I feel, as do all of your Choirs His entrance must be denied or I shall curse this Demon, bane And force that sinister, vile, brute to Hell to nurse his welts In Satans paradise he will writhe in futility unexpired For eternity his soul lamented in his earthly praise 30 Of dissenting righteousness and all things tragic The sorrow that he conspired Nights that he extended into days 4

Will be noted by his wailing, his rejection of Hells havoc Hell is where this fiend belongs Allow me to guide him there and with your grace 36 I will ensure that he burns for his crimes God allow me this pleasure strong He must not enter this place He must be enveloped in darkness for all time

eraphim I understand your concern

And I forgive your insolence and human yearns 42 Adhere to my will; have I ever led you astray? So heed what I say Hell is where he cannot go He thrives and gains in Satans glow Evil breeds within him and seeds For his barren heart never appeased 48 A heart that absorbs all of Hells sinister depths From the shallow chambers where the most baneful are kept To the deep cells where the most depraved are jailed Whose sins, wickedness, and pride he hails This Demon, this nemesis of the Light of Good Must be punished as celestial justice would 54 He must not be revered and praised as he would in Hell His disposition must be broken and forced frail He must work in Heaven side by side With the Choirs who enrage his dubious pride With the Angels who enflame his abusive lust He must be created envious 60 He must crave white wings and golden halos His eyes must be blinded by the goodness exposed That absent heart, those listless eyes must be directed to view My truth, my grace, my vengeance as guided by the pew From the alter, the desert, the missions, and the city blocks He will not refuse my love as merely faint prop 66 No gorging on innocence and why it is frail 5

No more deeds that the chambers of Hell hail Once within my divine presence My mercy, my infinite love, and benevolence Wrath he will no longer suborn and destitution he will chastise My grand and glorious and infinite perfection he will idealize 72 He will no longer understand darkness embrace And cower in the Light of Goods grace A grace that allows him a chance to repent And announce Satans bounty as pretend He will protect my kingdom against the dregs of fallen angels Who insist on avenging the promises dangled 78 Deviants who deserve no rebuttal against My impervious, my absolute, my infallible excellence He will lead my armies against these foes And his beloved Satan he will oppose His hate and disdain and all he loathes and detests And abhors and dislikes and rejects 84 He will love and adopt and protect and fear In caring he will have no peer Suffering will no longer arouse his senses A disposition of evil my blood rinses And he will bathe in my truths and my wisdom And ensure that all who oppose are imprisoned 90 I will force him to kneel and beg and plead And revoke and denounce Satans creeds The Demons devotion to demonic licenses His devotion to Satan and all of his deceitful enticements His lies and fallacy and falsehoods Will be replaced with my good 96 This anomaly, the Demon that mirrors Satan The Arch Fiend who betrayed the Demons destination Who was banished from my kingdom for desiring my throne The one who promised an eternity of evil known The influence and author of vice Muse to those ignorant of my Sons redeeming advice 102 My opposite, Satan, forever named To prevent eons of Satans reign 6

The Demon must obtain absolution here; adhere to my law And Satans plagues he will never befall For he is the heir to Hells fiendish throne Where the Light of Good is never shone 108 The armies he should have led Will retreat and cower and after they have fled To their same despair the Demon will be thrown To pay for the spite he has always known In Hell branded and demonized and forever chastised Forever by those who once admired the Demon with awing eyes 114 Forever disciplined for his unfaithfulness and treachery For he will realize his original, inferred destiny He will burn in Hell as he has always planned Forgiveness is not for those eternally damned So when you see him ascending the golden steps Forgive the many sullen tears you wept 120 Forget the victims of his evil, his dereliction Guide the Demon gracefully to his destination Do not deny his entrance as forgery Trust in your God; trust in me

he Seraphim and Gods instructions fled

And was to all the Choirs of Angels read 126 And all that their God had said Would be obeyed as if no feelings scarred And the Demons entrance was not to be marred Or fall from Heaven like the Dead Star The one who could not abstain from pleasure Who chose to deny Gods infinite treasures 132 And if his vile hate could be measured The weight would collapse the universe made And enemies to his villainous thrown would take shade In the heart of Satans incestuously barren cave Where light at distance is shown only to tease The light withdrawals only appease 7

The Dead Star who upon their grief feeds And gains in influence and power and structure Whose malevolence cannot be conceived or ruptured An amalgamation of all his violence mustered Impregnated and designed the Demon who the Angels mock Since his birth this Demon, Heaven and Hell have stalked 144 The Demon on Glory Road walked
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You can read the rest of Jonathan Sheppards epic poem, Heavenly Decay, in Someone Sinister which is available now in the Create Space Book Store: https://www.createspace.com/4263439 and on Amazon.