Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MAN-MADE HADES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poet's Biography First Line: If I were sent to build a hell Last Line: My hell of indecision. Subject(s): Doubt; Hell; Pain; Punishment; Skepticism; Suffering; Misery | ||||||||
If I were sent to build a Hell, A man-made state of terror, I think that I could do it well: I've planned it without error. I'd punish those committing crime With vigor and precision; I'd have my victims spend their time In constant indecision. I'd need no livid tongues of flame No brimstone or no devil, But still my Hell would earn its name On a sound Satanic level. I'd make my sufferers do some task But never let them know Just what they wanted; whom to ask; Or where they were to go; I'd let them always grope and yearn In everlasting doubt; There'd be no way for them to learn What it was all about. No Hell of pain, or fire, or fear, Of some prophetic vision Could in its punishment come near My Hell of Indecision. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR |
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