Failed virtues of the people today
nothing can be fixed
going to church every day
You’re Catholic
and I’m pious
and we still have our fingers
dipped in the blood
of our desires
What makes you more saintly than me I ask
Oh! I pray and confess twice in the last pass
I repent my sins
and donate to charity
to evade taxes
cause I can’t stand in the stinky lines
of the soup kitchen
to feel those empty glances
I’m looking at the God
and still stripping you with my eyes
they say I’m a man of cloth
who has burned every desire
Lighting up candles
kneeling to make my wishes come true
I can kill a person’s desire to live
but I can make a saint out of you.
Reading the holy scriptures
and accepting the truth in the gospel
we are camouflaging so beautifully
hiding the devil so well.
So what makes you feel
so saintly and
makes me a devil
please, pray tell.
This post is in response to the daily prompt
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I’m a mother of a smart and energetic seven-year-old. I started expressing myself creatively since the last two years. Since then I have been continuously inspired by events in my life and around me which has helped me in penning my thoughts.
I’m an avid reader, loves to sing, an ardent lover of poetry and sometimes can scribble few lines too. Loves to dance in the rain, have an undying love for nature, can watch the beautiful sunset for hours. Love to kiss and hug my loved ones.
I have worked in the IT field for almost a decade as a manager, worked crazy hours and traveled around the world. In that busy schedule, I never got the time to creatively express my thoughts. Now every time I finish a poem, free verse anything it fills me with so much happiness and excitement and a feeling to have created something of my own. I’m planning to post at least one creation of mine weekly.
Lastly, a million thanks to all who visit, like or follow my tiny bits of creation.
Every time you do that, I get to know one more beautiful person in my life and get the chance to see their creation too.
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Ah, such a great question to top off this excellent look at sinners and saints. We all have the capability to be both. Those holier than thou tend to be a lot further from sainthood than the common drunk who still drops a dime in the tin cup of the drunk laying next to him.
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Yup exactly. Thanks for your excellent feedback
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You are welcome, Megha 🙂
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Oh my! I’m in love with this post… The guy Fawkes mask reminds me so much about the dramatis personae in the movie vendetta. In fact, I’ve been reciting your poem in his characteristic way of talking.
Beautiful, wow inspiring poem.
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Wow, that’s an awesome compliment.Thanks.
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This is a great poem!
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Thanks Winnie.
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loved it, you wrote it so beautifully!
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Thanks for such kind words.
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the answer is that surely it is your experience of imperfection that really does qualify you as a saint?
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very powerful 🙂
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