The Mournful Spirit Poem by Denis Martindale

The shadow world that welcomed me
Was dark as night and more,
Where evil dwelt so fancy free
With all its soiled allure...
With subtleties all borne of lies,
Manipulations trained,
Another lost soul as the prize,
Its conscience to be strained...

The shadow spirits old as time,
Shapeshifters and the like,
So steeped in cruelties and crime,
As vipers fit to strike...
And not so much as friends were they,
Just colleagues now and then,
To fight by night, to fight by day,
Against all kinds of men...

I was a man, a lost soul, too,
Thought everything was fine,
Till now sent here, my life now through,
On other souls to dine...
So dead inside and dead throughout,
So cold, so callous now,
In fact, without a single doubt,
All evils to allow...

No turning back now life was done,
No pardon for my sins,
Just darkness lacking warmth or sun,
Where every demon grins...
But then a rainbow shone above
Across the midnight sky,
A miracle that meant God's love
Beyond all questions why...

Though dead, I heard God call my name,
My spirit was released,
Forgiven sins and sense of shame,
As if all blame had ceased...
I levitated from that Hell,
That vicious rendezvous,
As if this horror still to tell
To someone just like you...

Without the Saviour's blood to save,
I'd still be there today...
So please don't wait until the grave,
While you've still time to pray...
Remember Easter, what it cost,
Reflect on all that means,
For no-one else can save the lost,
Until Christ intervenes...


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


The poem is based on a near death experience as
was explained on a Revelation TV programme
about experiences of Heaven and Hell... In this
experience, the lost soul didn't even know it was
lost and yet in that Hell, surrounded by demons,
the Lord Jesus Christ was still able to rescue...
When life returned to that soul, only then could
that person truly say, 'Today, I'm born again.'

Several of my Gospel poems have been
read out on Revelation TV and I often
write about the programmes and topics on
this Christian TV channel thanks to the
receiving of their monthly RTIMES newsletters.

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