Personal Hells

What stokes the fires

Of our personal hells

While we exist here

Enjoying our gifts and liberties?

Do our true desires, our actions

Or inactions fan the flames

While we go on here?

What about our guided or misguided

Searches for meaning in our lives?

Perhaps it's how we go about filling

The voids and emptiness in our

Lives and selves?

Our personal hells may even

Be here on earth with us

Before we even die.