Come Hell Or High Water

Come Hell Or High Water

A Poem by Pete
"

Hell itself may be contained within the compass of a spark. - Thoreau

"
It's going to be hell on Earth

we danced and chanted
as the world spiraled downward
voiceless and slanted



© 2025 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." - Thoreau

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Added on August 18, 2025
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..