Nor Ever Shall I Depart

In this place I do abide,
a place where angels fear to tread.
Here they do not dare to stride
although the demons all have fled.

Once they all did wallow and hide
in this lair where they were born and bred.
But I uttered the predominant chide
and now...
I govern here instead.

A place He built of stone and fire,
a place deep within the earth.
What for them was torturous pyre
is, for me, a home and hearth.

In this home I feel no harm,
though its fires made others weep.
And its brimstone will me embalm
as I lay me down to sleep.

-"Nor Ever Shall I Depart"