Speech
 
"Silence!"  The devil raged.
"You're here because your lives
were not lives at all!
 
A few feet away from him
A few feet shuffled
Bystanders,
much scuffled
 
"Some of you are thinking, why must I be
damned to this fiery residence?
Why must I be stranded from the ones held close, to be boiled in heat,
To be sleeping in tar-laden sheets?
 
I have no answer.  Take your
time, and enjoy it.  But you
know as well as I, that heaven
is…
out of reaches forever!"
 
Someone coughed.
"Tea time will be at eleven."