A Reassuring Visit

I set about to reading 

Aligned down the path 

The bushes winter pleaching

And to solve their ordered math

–

I fell into a hole then

Where the gravel fell away

Not where they should have been

The eyes had lost the day

–

The hole was dark and kept going

The end abrupt but lit

A cave where dust was snowing

Down on me in the pit

–

A devil lurched in and stood

Offering me a hand

It was cold and so like wood 

Pulling me from the sand

–

He took me further in grinning

Knowing the shocking sights

Of those engaged in sinning

Poked by devils wearing tights

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He bade me take a seat

In a burning fiery chair

And offered me burning meat

Still covered in human hair

–

Later when I returned

Having crawled up a flue

My hands and feet were burned

And I pressed them in the dew

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I was free of sin he said

And had let me go

Standing with his dead

Saying he’d miss me so

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Because my skin was cool

Was of the silent moon

Clearly I was a fool

But one he’d not see soon