What is — the mind was made to understand,
For nothings nurture not the nascent thought.
While sums are simply cookies in each hand,
Subtraction makes much less sense to a tot.
They think of darkness, ugliness, and sin
As things that are, when they’re but absences.
The essence of the hole of hell lies in
It’s missing unity with Him Who Is.
This suffering of sinners without end
Our Mamma to three children did explain
In terms their growing minds could comprehend,
Like too much heat and too much fire and pain.
Her Dante got the harder truth of it —
No movement, heat, or love — a frozen pit.
On July 19, 2011, scientists bored a hole through a melt pond on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the final sea ice station of the 2011 ICESCAPE mission. Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen. Public domain. (Further details)
