if/when you're going through hell

You don't know how you ended up here 

In this wasteland 

This furnace 

This place of fire and brimstone 

You don't know 

How the floor dropped from beneath you

And you ended up here

In hell

They say demons live here

You know them well

And as far as torment goes-

Dante's Inferno has got nothing on you

The walls of this pit

Are well acquainted with your screams

Singed lungs

Smokey throat

And a voice hoarse

From no use

Misuse

And abuse

Things that once held your fingerprints

Hold them no longer

The flames have licked them off

And devoured every thing

every hope

every dream

Left it all in ashes

So, you left them there

Let the soot take the passion

Choke it out

Just like you're choking out that prayer

“Please don't leave me here alone.”

And I know you want to quit

You've been running for so long, love

Knee deep in lava

Feet cut up by rocks

Gashes across those knuckles

Bruises on that weary heart

Can I tell you something

A wise man once said?

If you're going through hell

You must keep on going

For that is no place to stop

And if you're feeling too weak

Like you can't possibly continue on

Remember that it's in the midst

Of weakness that His strength shows up

Because if the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego has anything to tell

It's the promise that

We do not go through the fire alone


-ashlyn