damned. the inferno awaits my arrival

Illustration by Sonam Kaloti

By Sonam Kaloti, Arts Editor


By the teeming pool of sins I swim in,

had I been religious,

I may never have seen the sun again


Though, of course, I see the sun everyday

Its sunlight gleams upon me

knees buckle in those surrounding

I stand triumphant


It’s just how evil works in some

Outer beauty deceiving innermost damnation

You could not tell the difference


Hath religion found regard, vice versa as well

I may have drowned myself

But as I have not

There is no one to save you


And that, is how I know there is no difference


Whether God is real or not, it does not matter

For either way we are alone in this

You have no one to protect you,

And I have no one to stop me