Ten Steps Of Purgatory

Why do you claim that there are nine steps

When in fact it's ten?

A gateway before menothing more than a simple door

I walk towards it, shivering

As I reach the threshold I hesitate

Aware of the pitch black darkness

Ready to take hold of my soul once I'm inside

One step forward and my life is irrevocably lost

Thought this is no time for second thoughts,

It is impossible not to be affected

By the dismal and uncanny presence of doom;

The hands of hell call out for me

The abyss is already glaring in my eyes

Now, in this very moment

My left leg has crossed the line

The first step and my mind is absorbed

Disembodied from the spirit and soul

I do not know this place I'm at,

Though it feels familiar

Suddenly it all becomes very clear and silent

And the silence is piercing

Whatever's left of mean oxymoron in limbo?

How peculiar... I cannot stay here for too long

As it's the only place I'm meant to be

My fate is to finish the ten steps of purgatory

Someone is drawing an invisible circle and

Forces me to count it, nine times

Is this hell?

I ask, but no answer

Am I being judged by actions I couldn't control

Suffering sins and crimes I did not commit

Just because I got drawn towards the darkness

Why do you claim that there are nines steps,

When in fact it's ten