The Devil Inside ~dVersePoets~OpenLinkNight #2
The Devil Inside
Who are you to call me sinner?
Cast me out and watch me burn,
because your own mind has tempted you?
Are you foolish enough to think
I have lived my own life
with the destruction of your moral fiber
my only goal?
...
...
You have convinced yourself,
through these chains of irrational thought
and shocking glimpses of complete insanity,
that you will save this poor lost soul
who knows not of the devil that has possessed
her fragile being.
Have you forgotten,
I know you not?
...
...
This soul is mine alone to save!
Your "god", your "good book",
will not be sold to me
by a preacher bathed in snake oil,
wrapped in sheep's clothing,
adorned like the false idols
you speak so feverishly against.
...
...
You demand me take to my knees!
In worship, in prayer, in the name of "God!"
But it is your own name,
you desire to hear whispered
in gasping breaths
amongst your purifying flames.
...
...
This guilt you speak of
is not my burden,
for it is your heart that weighs heavy.
Know now,
the devil is alive inside
and he wants you...not me.
Comments
you desire to hear whispered"
is a pair of lines that struck home for me, Tash. Ever wonder who made who in whose image first? God made man or man made God?
The "different" ones always have to be proofed in the fires of the Faithful of their time. This piece works for any time. Well done!
Now, pour me a mug of scripture from the Cult of Tashtoo, sweetie. Tall and cold, please. - J
Wonderfully said though and that's the face it facts don't you know!
you desire to hear whispered
in gasping breaths
amongst your purifying flames.
Well said! Emissaries can commit the greatest sins of pride.
In the way they want to 'save' others they end up taking themselves down into the fire.
brilliant
~Kelvin S. M.
-Pounds
I'm there with you, girl. Energetic stuff!
Lady Nyo
David
"You are Being; A vibrational, energy source of pure, brilliant light, endless knowledge and immeasurable love...Love our enduring connection to all that is sacred..." ♥ ஆ ~.^
You are of course entitled to your opinions about people of faith and their alleged rational impairments. But what did you think of the POEM itself? I think that the poem evokes fire that consumes a heart afflicted by injustice, as it literally and figuratively burns at the stake. Those of us who profess to love Jesus -- and to love other people as Jesus loves them -- must take to heart the cry of God's little ones, who are trampled down in various ways by hypocrites and Pharisees.
David
Burn baby burn.
If god exists he couldnt as a cosmos creating super being give a beep about some of the stuff so called religous people moan on about whilst they whip themselves in the dark with their hurdish slave mentalities.
The G man will be giving out points for spirit...
You'll be good judging by this wicked write.
Yeah, we really suck.
http://anointedruins.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/monster/
Sorry, Natasha. This combox should be about the quality of your poem (which I truly admire, as one poet and one human being to another). But it's turned into something else.
David
David
David
And I found out from your old blog, observer of nature, castles, etc., etc.
So many mother-lodes of gold on these blogs, and you ARE a shiny strain of those. Thank you!
Steve E
PEACE!
by a preacher bathed in snake oil - now that baby'd burn!
Carys
dani ♥