People talk about hell as if it is a place,
we go to when we die.
But we have created it on earth,
and I still do not understand why.

We have everything in our power
to create a beautiful world.
But we continue to destroy each other
with bloody actions and hateful words.

Some of us have lost all empathy.
We just have hate in our hearts.
Our utmost will is to obliterate
those we deem that are apart.

And the devastation it goes on and on.
The cries of children are heard in the echoes
of their surrounds.
Where their homes lay .....
is now unholy ground.

A world of acceptance is what I dream of.
There is plenty for all to have.
Where people get on with one another.
Where there is happiness and laughs.

I dream of a sky of violet blue.
A sun that beams of joy.
I dream of heaven on earth.
This dream I will not destroy.

Verse: Sandra Kavanagh (c). 20231019