“And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes...he cried...’have mercy on me, and
send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue; for I am
tormented in this flame’.”  KJV Luke 16: 23-24

Close my eyes forever


Sleep eludes 
until exhaustion defeats 
mind and body.
I enter into a state of stupor
or is it sleep?  For there I feel nothing,
see nothing, hear nothing,
do not exist.
An incessant pealing,
buzzing of an alarm
and the back-up
of high volume detestable music
stirs me for a moment.
Is that knocking at the door?
I close my eyes and drift
away.
Let me stay here forever
eyes closed
no thoughts
no agony
no tears...
surreal.

Close my eyes forever
oh, My Lord.
Take this fire
which consumes me inch by inch,
for I am in agony.
To survive need I become
like the rich man
with no thought for the
sore-covered starving Lazarus?
I would rather close my eyes forever
passing from this hell
into Your gates,
sore-covered suffering,
to suffer no more in
Your precious fold.


Copyright 1998- 2004  by Margaret C. Rigsby

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