There are two Hells
outside the walls
yonder at the source
Children went through fire
for their parents there, knowing and afraid
not to be able to make it to the end
sacrificed as the most precious
that a person can give
to his kinglike god
And on the field of blood at the narrowness
the insurgents fought
themselves to death for their new king
clinging
to the first rays of the sun
while the light in their eyes was fading
and their blood embittered
the water from the spring
for everyone who knew
Poem 1726 Amsterdam, 2018-04-23 MLK = Moloch = King, the god (Lev. 18:21, 20:1,3,4, 2 Kings 17:17, 23:10, Jeremiah 32:35) MLK = Malchus = King, the king of the Jews (John 18:10) Valley of Hinnom = Ge-Hinnom = Gehenna = Hell (Matthew 5:21-23), from the source Ein Rogel to the west; in this valley was the Tophet (from Tephet = fire stack), where children were sacrificed The Field of Blood (Matthew 27:8) is the western slope of red clay in the valley of the Kidron, north of the source Ein Rogel Collection:From Sacred Scriptures My Home Keyword:Religion: cruelty Keyword:Bible^