Speech
�
"Silence!"� The devil raged.
"You're here because your lives
were not lives at all!
�
A few feet away from him
A few feet shuffled
Bystanders,
much scuffled
�
"Some of you are thinking, why must I be
damned to this fiery residence?
Why must I be stranded from the ones held close, to be boiled in heat,
To be sleeping in tar-laden sheets?
�
I have no answer.� Take your
time, and enjoy it.� But you
know as well as I, that heaven
is�
out of reaches forever!"
�
Someone coughed.
"Tea time will be at eleven."