Dear God

Dear God,

Hi there, how are you? ........hello, anyone there? Just kidding!

We haven't corresponded before and I've never met you, or even heard from you, but there has been plenty of stuff written about you. It's all old material now though and scribed by ghost writers back in the day, I guess they're just 'ghosts' now though!

You'll have to excuse my flippant joviality (some might say "sarcastic" - hey, whatever!).
Anyway, as you may or may not know, I fell from Heaven into Hell a long time ago and I'm just hoping that you don't bear me any ill feelings. I don't remember anything about it myself, but my liege Satan has even suggested that you threw me out! I can't remember a "Heaven" though, as for "Hell", well......
I just want you to know, that living in hell wasn't my choice, I just found myself here. It's not a lonely place though, there're so many others here and some are doing the devil's work - I'm just fanning the flames:

Cast into Hades, 'tis now where I dwell
Abandoned here in this flaming pit of Hell
Now and thereafter an inmate of perdition
Under eternal scrutiny without remission...

Hope has burned away and my soul's long lost
Evil reigns unabated and it's with a deadly cost
Left with demons and doubt and a funereal pyre
Perhaps purgatory's the fate of the utterly dire?

Dear God, Satan's my liege, but it's a heavy load
So I'm speaking to you in the secret tongues of code
Our father wherever, can you see a circling vulture?
Spying a beady eye on me, in this sea of sulphur...

Perhaps you can see, perhaps you can understand the meaning of the verse, perhaps you are omnipotent and mayhap you are the saviour. If you're just a manifestation of someone's fucked up imagination, then I'll probably not see you here, there, or anywhere in Hell. But you need to know that Satan is very much alive and well.

Hopefully this letter won't get lost in the empyrean post... or be 'returned to sender'. Anyway if you do get to read it, I hope you can appreciate the poem's sentiment, yeah? ........hello, anyone there? Ha ha, just kidding again!

Kindest regards

Xaphan