Saturday, October 17, 2009

The 'SIN'ister Sisters

As i break the 'blog silence' in almost 10 months, I realize how wasted has this time been in under utilizing the space here. A feeling that sinks in when one realizes he/she has run dry of expressing their thoughts through a creative outlet !

Perhaps one of the few real reasons for picking up this course on Developing your Creative Self here at IIM-A is, as I have come to realize, that hidden desire to reignite a passion for writing which slumbers on.

And so follows a sojourn about the seven follies, sisters in crime, that I have indulged in my desire to be where I stand today, leaving behind some of the better times. I think Acedia will be my biggest concern.

Greed is good and Greed is right,
It cuts through, reinforces, and proves men’s might
Greed for life and Greed for love,
Greed in all its forms spread over a heathen cove

Is it a sign of status or simply a vice of mood,
This constant eating of delicacies and Gluttony of food
Withheld from the needy, rotund bellies bulge
The sin of excess, a temptation to over-indulge

A most potent cause of unhappiness, a harbinger it seems
The want of deep and dark desires in each of our dreams
My sorrow for another man’s good, insatiable none the same
A desire to deprive him of it, Envy – it be thy name

From invidiousness flows anger, an uncontrolled feeling of revenge
Not always external, our own inner demons it may avenge
Transgressions born of vengeance, the sin of Wrath breeds rage
Soothe it, appease it, and overcome it through the patience of a sage

The devil’s workshop it be, they say is an empty mind
To neglect and refuse joy, the sin of Sloth is unique in its kind
A willful refusal to work, an invitation to laze around
Aren’t we mortals through insufficiency of love truly bound

But for love to linger as an excess unrestrained
Adultery to incest, deviant thoughts no longer chained
Luxuria of sexual depravity they called it in times long ago
The sin of lechery, through Lust is how we know

Ultimately, a destroyer of men, a liberator of them all
It is Pride that finally goes before a fall
The sin of hubris, of the seven most vile
Transforming Lucifer to Satan, it makes mere mortals senile