I said, I was villanelled out, but this one seemed necessary to complete my book.  I now have the proofs half done.

Hellfire

"Whatever else we know about the bad place,
we know it was made by God,
and therefore was made out of love."
     -George MacDonald


"God in His mercy made
The fixed pains of Hell."
     -C. S. Lewis


Love is too weird to understand,
and much too strange to ever tell.
Hellfire is by mercy fanned.

God governs with a mighty hand
and outstretched arm all those who fell.
Love is too weird to understand.

God makes the plans of the unplanned,
the chaos of bottomless well.
Hellfire is by mercy fanned.

Of those who land where is no land,
what do we know?  Grace is pellmell.
Love is too weird.  To understand

is only to misunderstand.
Pity those locked in pity's cell.
Hellfire is.  By mercy fanned,

the flames leap high.  The sight is grand:
is God then good?  How can we tell
love is?  Too weird to understand?
Hellfire is by mercy fanned.