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Saving Sorrow

A man walks across a field of cold glass, and sees a long road ahead of him.The road looks more like a dark abyss, ready to engulf his soul, and ruin his

consciousness. He looks into the abyss and sees a reflection of himself. Hisreflection is filled with rage, anger, and discontent. He sees who he is, andwhat he will become in the future, and it is a bleak, dark life of hopelessnessand despair. He walks toward his reflection and says, "What are you?" Thereflection looks back and says, "I'm you in this life and another life." TheMan replies, "What do you mean? Are you my future?" The reflection replies,"I'm you in this life. This is who you are and you can't ignore it. You are fullof hate, envy, slander, and wrath. You are also unforgiving and full of despair." Perhaps suicide is the answer to this haunting vision.

The Man looks at his reflection in shock and wonders if this is true. He looksaway from his reflection and thinks about his past. He wonders if he hasever committed an evil act that would put him in this state of madness. Thenhe realizes that while he has committed sinful acts, he's never doneanything that would make him contemplate suicide. But this reflection ishim, and even though he might exist in a different life, it is still him. Afterthese thoughts past through him, he looks at the abyss and turns hisattention to his reflection and yells, "You are the devil!" His reflection stayscalm and crosses his arms to hear the Man state his case. The Mancontinues to yell, "You might look like me, you might sound like me, youmight even have my life, but you are nothing like me!"

The Man is out of breath and tries to calm himself. He looks up at the redsky and searches for his savior, but he couldn't find him, and realizes that heis on his own. God is not there.

The endless cold suffocating darkness touches the very depths of his soul.He sees his own reflection laughing at him and says, "You are a patheticfool! You can't ignore the truth that this is who you are, and can't escape theevilness that is within you." The Man continues to look at the red sky,searching for God, looking for an answer. But he still isn't there. Slowly theMan starts to accept the fact that he is alone. Then he saw her, a poorwoman, another person trapped in this cruel reality. He saw her beautifulblack eyes, her gorgeous dread locks, and the tears streaming down herface. She is on her knees, praying to God for help. The Man yells, "Who areyou? How did you get here?" The woman was startled. She looks up, andasks, "Did God send you to protect me? Are you an angel?" The Man replies,"No, I'm not an angel, but I'm willing to help you. I can see that you're inpain, and have been suffering as much as I have!"

Sorrow looked at the Mans face and saw that he was sincere, and that while

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he was not an Angel, he wasn't a Demon either. She saw something goodwithin the mans soul, something honest and pure. She ran towards him forsafety.As she was running, she saw his reflection. It was the reflection of a manwho lived his bleak life in an endless abyss, filled with anger, wrath, and

lust. She doesn't understand how she knows this, but at that very momentshe becomes afraid and stops running. She is perplexed and confused. Sherealized she was in hell and didn't know who to trust.

The Man looked at her and said, "Don't look at him. That's not me. It'ssomething else, but it is not me. It may look like me, it may sound like me,and it might have had my life, but it is not me!" Sorrow yelled, "I know, Iknow! Don't worry, I know I can trust you. I'm just so afraid, because helooks like you. You have to get away from him, he must be a demon!"

Suddenly, a gust of wind changed the configuration of his reflection. Thereflection looked disturbed, realizing that it could not speak. The wind hadclosed its mouth, and the reflection began to change into his true form. Itwas not a reflection at all, but a demon who would keep Sorrow from leavingthis dark road towards an endless abyss, and entrap the Man for eternity.

The wind continued to blow and revealed that there were more disturbingevents occurring around them. Blood covered the land and surrounded theroad and looked like an ocean, with people struggling, suffering and dyingwhile its waves washed over them. Sparks and flames of fire happenedevery second. It was at this moment, the Man realized he and Sorrow were

in definitely inHell.

He yelled to Sorrow, "Get next to me!" "I'll try to protect you for as long as Ican, but I have no weapons, no armor, no sword, and God is not here. Iheard you praying, but he probably will not answer your prayers and I canonly protect you for a short while."

Sorrow ran towards him, experiencing all of the pain and suffering aroundher, grabs his right hand, clenched it hard, and silently prayed to God forhelp.

The Man wanted to scream at her and tell her that God wasn't there to help.Meanwhile, the reflection, had now become evil incarnate. It was at least 10feet tall, with 3 heads, 3 arms, and 4 legs.

Its eyes had a red light within them, and its breath smelled like a furnace. Itfinally dawned on the him that this was it: he and Sorrow were together inHell, together in the darkness, together in the endless abyss.

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Sorrow closed her eyes, praying to God, holding the Man's hand, with tearsstreaming down her face.

Just as the Demon was about to kill them both, the wind came and created aroaring thunder that could be heard throughout all of Hell. Every creature

was startled, even the Demon. Then more thunder came and Hell started toshake and tremble; the red Sky opened up with a ray of light that blinded allthe creatures, including the Demon.

The Man and Sorrow could see all that was happening but no one else could.They saw creatures screaming and people in the sea of a blood unable tomove or see. Then suddenly the light revealed to them a Rock with a Swordinside of it.

The Man and Sorrow looked at the Rock with the Sword, looked at eachother, and then looked at the Rock. The light shone on the both of them, butit didn't blind them. They heard a voice say, "Go to the Rock, pick up theSword, and strike the Demon!"

The Man replied, "God, is that you? Please answer." And God said, "Yes, it isI! Now pick up the Sword, and I shall purify this world forever. With it'sdestruction, I will create a paradise for both you and Sorrow!"

Then the light disappeared, the creatures and the people in the land of bloodbegan to see again. The Man grabbed Sorrow's hand, and ran to the rock.Once there, Sorrow said, "The Lord answered my prayers!" The Man replied,

"That's great to know, but I got to focus my strength on this Sword!"

The man grabbed onto the Sword, pulled it out of the Rock, and struck theDemon with the Sword. As the Sword pierced the Demon's chest, itscreamed in pain, and died a slow death. It melted away into the ground,never to be seen again. The Man looked at the Sword and rejoiced. He gavethanks to the Lord. Sorrow was finally filled with Joy and rejoiced with theMan and gave thanks to the Lord. But the land was still in darkness, and theland of blood was still flowing, some creatures were still roaming, and peoplewere still suffering.

Suddenly, Water came forth from the Rock! The Man and Sorrow wereshocked and amazed at its beauty.The Water began to purify the land. It destroyed the creatures, and thedarkness, while putting the people into an eternal state of rest, but theycould not go into paradise, because they had not yet earned the right.

Their suffering was over, they were unable to move their bodies, yet theystill rejoiced, for their eternal suffering was over.

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The Water purified everything: Hell was destroyed and Paradise becamevisible to the Man and Sorrow.

The Man and Sorrow were filled with happiness, and sang with Joy to the

Lord, for he had finally arrived and saved them. Sorrow looked at thisparadise, and said, "This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen." TheMan replied, "We shall call this our home." The fear that had filled their liveswas gone; they were at peace in a world of complete bliss.

The Man put down the Sword, said thank you to God.

God replied, "You have done well my good and faithful servant; I bless yournew relationship with this woman named Sorrow!"

The Man and Sorrow both looked at one another, and kissed each othergently on the lips. And even though her name was still Sorrow, she wouldfeel joy for the rest of her life. And both she and the Man would rejoice withthe Lord daily, and give thanks to everything that he would give them.

Then the Man woke up.............