Their Side? What Side? My Side!

Dining

with the angels

white -

dancing with the devils

black.

Welcome her! Milady--

and better watch your back.

 

Once the angels offered her

to join the force of light--

dismissed them with a wave of hand

and ordered them to leave her sight.

Demons once have told her

to darkness she must bow.

She giggled as she said

“not even when I’m dead.”

  

Cunningly deceits the good--

Evil souls she lures.

The only side she plays for

is the one that is

of hers.

                                               

                                                   

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we have to look out for ourselves in this world today....others won't ...we are our own team...and sometimes winning seems a futile proposition...so many forces working against...the world is so different to me...from the sixties...i miss then.

really good poem...

j.

[guy drori]

Thank you Jacob.
I agree with what you're saying. We do need to look out for ourselves . . . and about the sixties, I wasn't alive back then, lol, but I'm guessing they were good times

[Jo R.]

The devotion to self is loud and clear in this. Such a comment on current times; yet timeless as well. Do we really understand what we are doing when moving too fluidly back and forth between good and evil in service of self?

[guy drori]

To your question, I cannot fully reply, because I think the answer is not blank and white. I think we often do things we think that serve us when they actually don't. You also lead me to think as to WHY people have the need to sway from side to side - back and forth when it comes to good and evil.
If you'd like, I published a post on my blog concerning the subject of good and evil, which also mentions people that are on no side but their own. (The link is beneath my name) Would love for you to read.

Thank you for reviewing Jo R - appreciate it :)

[Jo R.]

I have a faith base that explains the sway for me, and I will go to the blog to read the post. Good to connect, Guy!

[guy drori]

Thank you Jo R . . . have a great day!

[Jo R.]

Did read it...lots in there....I appreciate you're looking at the various aspects of how this struggle shows up in us and in the world. I work as a marriage and family therapist (in both secular and Christian settings) and I get to engage with the manifestations of this struggle in multiple ways. It is complex, and no, not black and white. Thanks for your work, Guy

[guy drori]

Thank you for reading and you are very welcome.
Indeed, it is not black and white. What you do certainly sounds interesting. I''m sure you've encountered such situations multiple tiimes

[Kathy Van Kurin]

guy drori,
Interesting comparison. How anyone can play with dark and light-evil and good is really beyond me! So here we have a perplexing person not admitting to serve anyone but herself. Hmm. The truth is I think that we all are like that sometimes but it is difficult to live long-term. Delightful poem. I saw something which was a paradox. Blessings Kathy

[guy drori]

Thank you so much for commenting Kathy :)
Yes, I agree with what you wrote - we are all, in a way, on our own side, and it is definitely difficult to be that way in the long-term.