#sins poems on Hello Poetry

Eliza Hale Mar 2018

I'm terrified.
I know if I don't repent God will punish me.
I want to be good I swear,
right now it's just so hard to be.

I know what I've done will take time to undo and forgive
I know with one meeting with my church leader this could all be over
I love what I'm doing at times
Some days I feel like a powerful rover

I love him so much and I want to please him.
He's so happy when we're intimate and so sweet
So I don't want to let him down.
I feel like I have high expectations to meet.

Then other days I can't get out of bed.
My sins fill every thought and every action
I can't look at him without wanting to leave,
I run and run but never get any traction.

I know the solution to my problems,
but I can't bring myself to do it.
I say I'll do it eventually, that my life is going to turn around.
But that is just my life becoming more and more split.

I know this
I know this
I know ALL of this...
I know all of these things, so why can't I do it?

#religion #sins #guilt #splitlife #confusion

Meera Mar 2018

Love with a devil

The affection that you showed
Was a bait to trap me
Behind your angelic face
Were fangs I couldn’t see
You broke my heart ant ripped my soul
Until there was nothing left in me
******* in bondages
I tried but couldn’t flee
The temptation to be loved made me fall for a devil
The devil that were you
And by the time I emerged from your hell
I was all black and blue
You stood there smiling
Watching me while I bled
Now I’ll make you pay
For every single tear I shed
Go run away from me
But I gonna chase you down
You’ll lie there repenting for your sins
While I’ll straighten my crown

#love #devil #emotions #bled #tears #fangs #******* #repentance #sins #crown

bradley C Mar 2018

living with poison

So, im living with poison
and all that im left with is the pills and potions.
It's a simple and still night
as im swept in by the movement of the ocean.

Trying to unravel my thoughts of the world
this isn't no sudden
when your just oblivious as this brave girl.
So, im living with poison
deep as the knife cuts wrap around your wrist.
life is not gentle the night and day automatically splits.
You're living with poison?
babe..don't give in
im here to tell you through the good and bad that we all sin.
Also, everyone lived with poison it's now to become a new trend
babe..don't give up!
i told to myself by the time of ten.

#hope #life #sins

ht Feb 2018

Ink Stains

Do you remember the last day?
Not the one where our words left burns on flesh
But the one where our tentative apologies became the salve
Where forgiveness became possible
And our future was suddenly not set in stone
We stole pens and wrote our sins on sweat coated skin
Our truths sinking into every wrinkle and every fold we created
But in the morning you were gone
And in the bathroom I found a washcloth stained with ink.

Were you wiping me away? | h.t

#ink #stained #breakups #sins #truths #forgiveness

Autumn Whipple Feb 2018

the evil eyes they follow

blue and white
cast upon you
like rice at a wedding
they follow
wanting
lusting
calling
cursing
but how to ward them?
when you ache
and plead
with yourself
your empty bank account,
god
for something you find beautiful
in another
yes, the evil eyes are always watching
because
they are yours.

this was for a prompt where you didn't name the seven deadly sins, so this one can have every adjective but the word envy. I chose the evil eye, because that represents the stain jealousy casts on others.

#evileye #envy #jealously #lust #deadly #sins #seven #thefirstsin

Poetic T Feb 2018

She Hung Me Tightly

She was the noose that
       I'd hang myself from,
I would put the snare of
        her heart around my throat.

Her words would caress my
       windpipe strangling
me with loves whispers,
              suffocating me gently.

But words were hard to speak
        when she was collecting tightly
around my breath.
I couldn't be with her as I was suffocating,
                                 my actions she hung me from.

#words #sins #hung #gently #pain

V Feb 2018

Confession

Tell me, Father...
Which do I ask forgivness for?
What I am, or what I am not?
Which should I regret?
What I became or what I didn't?

#god #forgivness #regret #confession #religion #sins #crisis #contemplation #emotional #vent

A Feb 2018

The Seven Sins

Lust is for the weak of body,
Wrath is for the weak of control,
Pride is for the weak of mind,
Gluttony is for the weak of soul.

Greed is for those who want more,
Sloth is for those who want less,
Envy is for those who want all.

Those are the seven sins, the sins
That break souls like a bug underfoot,
The sins that are uneasy to break,
Even when all your heart's at stake.

Each line has seven words.

#seven #sins #gluttony #wrath #envy #pride #sloth #greed #lust

Gabe Ouellette Feb 2018

One too many for most.

Every poet writes about the 'Seven Deadly Sins'
But what about the eighth?

The purity of the mind may combat such primal lust,

And urges held back through temperance will fend off gluttony.

The charity of giving to others will free the soul of greed.

Any virtue will require diligence and to opt away from sloth,

But one will need patience so as not to resort in wrath.

So if kindness is abandoned all that remains will be envy,

with that keep humble, as not to foster pride.

But rarely, ever so seldom does a poet touch on hope, and how one may 'cure' despair...

Why does every poet write about the seven sins? I guess I'm not much better...

#seven #sins #despair #hope #poet