Unhallowed Ground

A soul lives in a dark place

in an unknown grave reserved for the damned

by the northern wall of the churchyard cemetary

in the place once known to some as "Hell's Corner"

where the air hangs with the dust of tombs

and the mounds seem to breathe

The place is cursed and all those

who are buried in this forsaken place

cannot be laid to rest

The souls of suicides and unbaptized children

who must go to the place

of wailing and gnashing of teeth

in the Outer Darkness

where the tears fall like rain

For at midnight's toll the Evil One

will come to claim the souls of those

whose heads are pointed north

with their feet turned to Hell

And neither the angels nor the saints

will intercede on their behalf,

for God himself has turned away and

given them to Him

They are lost forever

for Heaven's gates are closed

and Satan has their souls

Here the evil spirits prey upon the living

filling those passing by with gloom and sorrow

and as the sands of time obscure the names on the stones

their fates will be forgotten,

but their cursed souls remain

in unhallowed ground