Badgerpants Wifflebat

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

My demon stays silent
He has nothing to say
If I allowed him to speak
You'd only run away
So when I'm asked "are you ok"
Silence is the stern reply.
Quiet, peace, dumb, mute
Blank, impassive, soundless a
Demon tamed by having nothing to say

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

Luxuria (Lust)

My hunger for you never wanes
your, smell, touch, look send me aflame
my lips bruised after being crushed by yours
my thirst quenched by drinking you in,
my need as robust as your thrusts,
my cravings, like a ****** in need of a fix.
Immersed in you, luxuriating in you,
knowing you, has starved and saved
my soul.
Amongst the smell of lust and lechery
Dante watches, he watches my soul.
Purgatorio, penitent I walk within flames to purge myself of lustful thoughts and feelings.
Dante's Inferno. Souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane winds, I feel the wind at my back. Howling.
A symbol of my own lack of self-control to my lustful passions
in this my earthly life.
Just be with me when we are judged, together we can prove our
Love

#love #sin #lust

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

Gula (Gluttony)

Gluttony always requires company.
What's the point showing off greed alone?
Gluttony has no policy of equality.
A glutton is accustomed to fatten his rotten soul.
Greed feeds the glutton, food, money, power, ***,
no thought for anyone but themselves.
Selfish to the core.
Excessive desire turning commodities
into necessities, the biggest car,
the flashiest ring, the biggest house,
the newest toy, but no joy.
The excessive desire
for the sin of want, Gula.
Gluttony

© JLB
In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy
Because of these scripts, gluttony can be interpreted as selfishness; essentially placing concern with one's own interests above the well-being or interests of others.

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

Avaritia (Greed)

Like the sin of lust, greed, is a need,
however unlike my need for you
greed turns my desire for your touch
your kiss, your caress to lust, to a greed of more.
Lust and greed are twins in the land of sin.
Sins of excess.
Rapacious, covetous, guaranteed to
succeed in tricking you into conceding them as a need.
Dante's, penitents were bound and laid face down on the ground.
Perhaps my greed of you exceeds the sin itself,
inordinate desire feeds my greed, that in turn
changes to lust

© JLB
As defined outside of Christian writings, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs, especially with respect to material wealth.

#sin #want #avarice

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

Socordia(Sloth)

Today
Sunday
Slows

Today
Apathy
Grows.

Today
Indolent
Desires

Today
Scarecrows
Stand

Today
Talents
Wane

Today
Numbness
Reigns

Today
Sloth
Drove

Today
Just
Froze

Today
Good
Failed

Today
Evil
Grows

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

© JLB
Dante's Purgatorio he had portrayed the penance for acedia (sloth/listlessness) as running continuously at top speed.

#sin #deadly #lazy #lethargy

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

Ira (Wrath)

Hate not blood course through my veins
I want to laugh in your face, when you feel the pain
My fury is my story not yours to tell
Mine to yell, demonstrate, remonstrate
Wrath, in its purest form, presents with self-destructiveness, violence, and hate that provokes feuds that go on for centuries.
Wrath persists long after the person who did another a grievous wrong is dead. But, wrath is mine to feel, to touch, to taste.
Feelings of anger impatience, revenge, and lividity.
Wrath is allowing my revenge, call it self-destructive, call it
bad behaviour, my sin of wrath is directed internally toward me.
Suicide, deemed as the ultimate, albeit tragic, expression of hatred directed inwardly, a final rejection of God's gifts.
But,you made me angry so it's you I reject.
When cold tempered steel,
meets hot vengeful blood

© JLB
Dante described vengeance as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite". In its original form, the sin of wrath also encompassed anger pointed internally as well as externally.

#sin #anger #rage

May 2014

Camellia-Japonica

Pride (Latin,Superbia, Greek, Hubris)

Pride, personified, Satan.
Lucifer's pride his desire to compete with God
his fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan.

Pride personified, but what of us, the humans,not Angels
What pride are we guilty of?
The original and most deadly of the seven.

The original and most serious of the seven deadly sins,
the source of the others
Pride is sometimes viewed as excessive or as a vice.

Pride, Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbour", but
Pride involves exhilarated pleasure and a feeling of accomplishment.

What accomplishment?
That one is better than others?
Our social and economic standing?

Our supercilious ego's?
A better house? The pride that comes with snobbery?
Our arrogance at believing in only ourselves?

Yet, through negativity,positivity can come of pride,
results from satisfaction with meeting personal goals;
Family, friends, education.

Amplified and multiplied, pride
takes a satisfied place in all our hearts.
A complex secondary emotion.

The first and strongest emotion being love
Love cannot be prideful
Yet, pride comes before a fall.

And we as humans fall in love

© JLB

One definition of pride in the first sense comes from St. Augustine: "the love of one's own excellence".In this sense, the opposite of pride is either humility or guilt.

#sin #pride #deadly