Screwtape Is Alive And Well Poem by Margaret Alice

Screwtape is alive and well
and living in my head
instead of writing letters to Dear Wormwood
is composing letters to my soul:
every day as I come into my office

Screwtape begins the daily letter – remember
you can tell that life is meaningless
so go surfing on the Internet
to find an anchor for you mind
and see what you can find on esoteric matters

Screwtape knows my fear of boredom
and my worries on modern serfdom
our enslavement to technology
in this our modern technocratic life
so he attacks me at my weakest point

Screwtape was described by C. S. Lewis
I wonder if he knew him well
whether he also had to fight
the need to visit the invisible realms
to help him through the world of sight

Screwtape will not let me go
I have sold my soul
to the glories of the underworld
strange theories and great mysteries
anything to escape

From the world I know!