Personal Hell & Present Heaven

I thought I was the only one
Who had a foretaste of Hell,
It seemed like nothing was going right
Though I was trying to do well.
I found it deeply depressed me
The Darkness intensified,
Why was this all happening to Me?
Deep within I cried.

But as I took the focus off
Of myself and looked around,
It altered my sense of Reality--
For in truth, this is what I found:
For each there's a personal Hell
However different they be,
That we experience in this life--
>From which we seek to be free!

So I am not alone in pain
Nor is pain my only venue,
For I also have my delights
By which Heaven, I preview!
At least for some fleeting moments
Are some Mountiantop feelings known,
A far cry from the Hells I've seen
Life's Best has also been shown.

So life when taken as a whole
Will e'er have it's Good and it's Bad,
One makes my personal Heaven
Or a present Hell, so sad.
Both of these elements can teach
Some lessons for eternity:
Here, not there, the Hell's fade away--
Be warned, be wooed don't you see?

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