Just a thought, or two, for a Sunday morning. It is a poem in need of pondering.
Please read and enjoy,
Jake.
“This could be Heaven or this could be Hell.”
The Dark Side Of Heaven
There are those who will say
that there isn’t a Hell
and into its depths
we’ll not slide.
But if that is true
I will say this to you,
then Heaven must have,
a dark side.
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You must live, your life
in the best way,
so to Heaven you’ll go
when you die.
I was raised to believe
there, my reward I’d receive,
when I went to the sweet
bye and bye.
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But, there must be a dark side
of Heaven,
if it’s true that there isn’t
a Hell.
Yes, there must be a dark side
of Heaven,
for all of those angels
who fell.
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When our souls do arrive
at those Pearly Gates,
is there a path
to the left and the right?
And who has the say
who goes, and which way,
to the dark side
or into the Light?
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Is there a book of our deeds
and a tally,
of the good and the bad
that we’ve done?
And if there’s more wrong
are we’re moved along,
to the dark side away
from the Son?
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So, there must be a dark side
of Heaven,
if it’s true that there isn’t
a Hell.
Yes, there must be a dark side
of Heaven,
for all of those angels
that fell.
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Yes, there must be a dark side
of Heaven,
if it’s true that there isn’t
a Hell.
Yes, there must be a dark side
of Heaven,
for all of us sinners
who fell.
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May 2013
“This could be Heaven or this could be Hell” is from the song “Hotel California” by The Eagles, originally released as a single in 1977 and later became the title song of an album.
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