#hatfields-mccoy

[themountaingoatandtheotter]

I wrote this poem after reading about the Hatfield-McCoy fued

The Baptism of Devil Anse

  I saw the devil baptized today,

     the flames in his eyes disappeared.

I saw him plunged in the water,

  and he emerged with a clean soul.

    I saw the devil baptized today,

     never thought of a man so evil.

The Tug Fork resurrected his soul,

  greater than the blood of his enemies.

    I saw a man baptized today,

     he was old and his hair was white.

You would never have known

  all the sorrow he caused

    I saw a man baptized today,

     afterwards he smiled and laughed.

I never thought the Lord would take the devil

  to become as innocent as an angel.