Omnem spem relinque

 I approached the distant town gloomily.
Full of all of those old illusions from the life behind me.
The pines tall and sinister looked down sizing me up.
I kicked a stone and cursed.

I walked toward the small town.
The orange lights still lighting up the valley.
Dawn hadn't yet arrived... And it never will.

I look up at the city archway between the engravings of two brave vultures.
The words- Omnem spem relinque. Were written.
I spoke the words aloud as I trudged in.

My old life gone, Somehow I walked out of a dream.
Of transforming times and places.
And now I stood here in tattered clothes.
In this strange little town.

The buildings were mixed between ancient and new.
The people regarded me as If they knew me.
I approached the big grey building at the center of town.

The red man invited me in.
he said he had some things to go over me.
Wonderful teeth and manners.

Find the pain fulfillers bring them back.
Give yourself to the cause.
Fires burst forth from his desk and I was engulfed.
I transformed into something so hideous, so damned.

I asked, "How am I supposed to go back to earth like this?"
He said, "It's just the truth no more no less. This is what you are on the inside."
I felt the burning through all of me.
I felt the condemnation in divine pulses through my temples.

"I thought I was christian."
"Did you actually forgive, did you actually help anyone for that matter?"
"No, I just sang and danced and said nice things."
"Exactly so serve us now, you were faithless. Completely self absorbed."

I woke up in the parliament building with a list in my hand.
"Atleast I had a purpose" I said out loud to myself.
A voice came from inside the walls. "Omnem spem relinque."