Sin Chagrin

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. - Thoreau

lies in heaven

truth in hell

prayer in the wind

someone spoke and someone else sinned

sperm in the gutter

love in a taped, unmarked box

head in the clouds

some people and things just don't like crowds

Author's Note

"The only sin in the world is ignorance. I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

Sometimes lies come the least likely of places and the truth comes from the most lace of hate. Usually the truth comes from hell when someone is trying to be detrimental by telling the truth.
Unfortunately not everyone is ready for the truth and blunt honesty.

The second stanzas say so much a love that isn’t given in return and a gift left in a box unable to be given. Love and emotions are complicated

[Pete]

like your thoughts on this. life continues to evolve ever further from truth. many of us don't even recognize it anymore and wouldn't know it if it spit on us.

[Poetic Beauty]

So I have four people in my life that give blunt honesty and open truth: my mother, my son, my ex in Arizona, and Mr blue eyes. I’d forgotten how refreshing it was to have blunt honesty in a partner until Mr Blue Eyes came along. I’m still best friends with my ex in Arizona. He tells it like it is unfiltered can seem cruel sometimes but isn’t intended that way. I’m use to it from him and well my son I taught to be that way and learned it from my mother

[Pete]

my wife would never open up and talk about anything seriously - kept it all in. avoids dealing head like an issue is the plague. she got that from her parents - all silent types.

[Poetic Beauty]

I can from time to time keep things inside. I don’t like revealing my weaknesses or being vulnerable. You know what men go through typically. I do and will open up if I trust someone enough. Mr Blue Eyes knows if I’m angry there is usually a different reason for my anger and my ex Jesse knows as well. Both are much like that as well in nature. Dominant alpha males. I’m a dominant alpha female so same in female form

[Pete]

we are what we are. take it or leave it.