Heaven and Hell Mindlessly

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photo by AARON DAMIEN FROST

*dedicated to Alesana, Hand in Hand With the Damned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5nv-xrkF48

St. Teresa of Avila, pray for me.

Lets do this



------------------/Heaven and Hell Mindlessly; Satan's Words to Jesus on the High Place


Jean-Michel Basquiat
paintings, girls with blonde hair, blue eyes
thick legs fawning
poems from the Tang dynasty
sweeping rolling hillsides in France – cathedrals of Charlemagne
candles lit, serenity of summer swooshing breezes
flattering your fantasies inside
the marvels of the British maritime fleet
poised to strike beneath the moon
the majesty of power, military mastery
technological advancements of the twenty first century
exploding comforts, medical evolutions
international trade, exquisite food from one end
of the sky to the other effortlessly served (not hunted)
insulated doors in winter, warmth for your worn sandals;
scabbed feet
expeditious travel, bounteous leisure
riverboat on the nile gazing (I can restore the past too)
at the pyramids of Giza exhaling
-with Mary Magdalene and your eventual child-
close your eyes
envision this desert landscape to be your destination
of choice, and entertain any and all fancies
forbidden
by your austere "god" delusion, your impracticalities
spread your arms – they are wings calling you to grasp
the next gust and abdicate all anxiety
abolish all fears, free yourself from this feint of fasting
eat
drink
be merry
why go through the tedious trouble
save none but yourself, because rest soundly in knowing
all else would do the same
the only hell is the hollows of our harried minds
that harass our pursuits of pleasure – the only
plausible peace
cause in this world there is no sacrifice, substitute
redemptive restoration of a "fallen" mankind
no sons of gods
only present existence and the stubborn seeking
of satiation of slaking our sympathies for sexiness
hell is the absence of hedonism, heaven
seduction


(bow down and serve me)




----------------Luke 4:1-13
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.'" The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'" The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, “throw yourself down from here. For it is written:
"'He will command his angels concerning you
to guard you carefully;
they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"
Jesus answered, "It is said: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.

---Hand in Hand with the Damned Lyrics ----

I don't trust myself
I'm trapped drowning in despair, I'm poisonous
I slammed the door and locked it shut and now disaster
plagues my thoughts
Let's drink to the dead, "cheers to what's ahead"
I'm poisonous

Sweet temptress, I can see it in your eyes
You're moving on without me
So it ends tonight, I guess this is goodbye
Selfishly you say you're better off without me
And it ends tonight...well baby save your breath

Won't you please have mercy?
Before you push me away let me try to change your mind
Oh wanderer,
If you think this is fun, just you wait till I'm done!

Blessed fortune screams,
"Why have you forsaken me?" there's no escape
I never should have lost my way
And now I'm stranded out at sea chasing a lie?
There's no escape, I'm losing the sky

Sweet temptress, I can see it in your eyes
You're moving on without me
So it ends tonight, I guess this is goodbye
Selfishly you say you're better off without me
And it ends tonight...well baby save your breath

Imprisoned soul seized in a chamber of feculent horror
Suffer all you must but suffer silently
Still your cursed tongue, stay your blighted abandon
In your eternal death you hunger for rotten mire
For in your mortal life it was this which was your gift
to man
Prepare to walk hand in hand with the damned

God can't help you and angels won't save you
Your unrequited prayers will be the bane of your
existence
Prepare to walk hand in hand with the damned

I am poisonous
Is there a way for me to say that you should stay?
I need to know you'll miss me when I'm gone
I'll cherish you until the day I die, a twisted way to
make you mine

I can see it in your eyes, you're moving on without me
So it ends tonight, I guess this is goodbye
Selfishly you say you're better off without me
And it end tonight...well baby save your breath

Won't you please have mercy?
Before you push away let me try to change your mind
Oh wanderer, if you think this is fun, just you wait
till i am done!