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# Ascendance
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/ascendance/
- Published: 2022-01-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: there are no flies in paradise the drinks are truly fruity the hosts, they're nothing if not nice interpreting their duty as the well being of each guest those that arrive after a quest and those called up too early t...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

there are no flies in paradise  
the drinks are truly fruity  
the hosts, they're nothing if not nice  
interpreting their duty  
as the well being of each guest  
those that arrive after a quest  
and those called up too early  
the victims of their circumstance  
or in some cases, random chance  
or worse yet, hurly burly

things are quite different down below  
for one there's no hosannas  
awash in warm volcanic glow  
demonic pollyannas  
toil endlessly for his return  
bubbling cauldrons boil and burn  
and Beelzebub and Mammon  
each seeking favor with their lord  
each falling of their own accord  
plot pestilence and famine

and purgatory, your domain  
it borrows from both places  
on some days it's the devil's reign  
on others, prayers and graces  
which side wins out we've yet to see  
perhaps that's all we're meant to be  
a cosmic proving ground  
the universe defines itself  
put good and evil on the shelf  
let love itself be crowned