Liar

[LadyW]

LIAR
Do not cast your h o l l o w eyes upon me with apathetic pity.
For I have seen the truth and acknowledge it with all the dignity I can salvage.
Pay no heed to your transgressions. As always,
Ignorance is bliss.
My query is uttered from my lips, the question filling the room;
Articulated in such a c u t t i n g manner.
Its threatening presence silences us,
And you f a l l from your high throne of self-importance.
Your voice fails and your eyes remain locked to the floor; a shelter from confrontation.
Not daring to venture from this safe-place.
I look to y o u, searching for reprieve from this agonizing stillness,
But my attempts are fruitless...
For I have already lost you to your thoughtless SIN.

[Lote-Tree]

Ah I see! A Closet-Book Whacker-Poet coming out :D



LIAR




Do not cast your h o l l o w eyes upon me with apathetic pity.
For I have seen the truth and acknowledge it with all the dignity I can salvage.
Pay no heed to your transgressions. As always,
Ignorance is bliss.
My query is uttered from my lips, the question filling the room;
Articulated in such a c u t t i n g manner.
Its threatening presence silences us,
And you f a l l from your high throne of self-importance.
Your voice fails and your eyes remain locked to the floor; a shelter from confrontation.
Not daring to venture from this safe-place.
I look to y o u, searching for reprieve from this agonizing stillness,
But my attempts are fruitless...
For I have already lost you to your thoughtless SIN.


Interesting poem LadyW...thoughtless sin? is that worse than thoughtful Sin?

[LadyW]

Ah I see! A Closet-Book Whacker-Poet coming out :D
Interesting poem LadyW...thoughtless sin? is that worse than thoughtful Sin?
Maybe...
Thoughtful sin (in this context) would mean a sin carried out purposefully and maliciously in order to cause great upset and pain.
However, the sin is thoughtless because the person didnot think of the consequences, the devastation his/her actions would cause and most of all he/she was blinded by self-righteousness; he/she took the other person for granted.

[Lote-Tree]

However, the sin is thoughtless because the person didnot think of the consequences, the devastation his/her actions would cause and most of all he/she was blinded by self-righteousness; he/she took the other person for granted.

For me thoughtful Sin would be worser wheareas thoughtless would be less because of negligence?

[LadyW]

For me thoughtful Sin would be worser wheareas thoughtless would be less because of negligence?
Thoughtful sin was thought about, executed on purpose in order to hurt someone/damage something - It's malicious and spiteful.
Thoughtless sin (once again, in the poems context) is more selfish because it involves placing ones self over another. It will achieve perhaps small personal gain but at the expense of another. While the sin was in motion, the person carrying it out did not think of the consequences, the effect on others - just of his/hers gain.

[Lote-Tree]

Thoughtful sin was thought about, executed on purpose in order to hurt someone/damage something - It's malicious and spiteful.


And therefore this is far worse?

Thoughtlessness is like a child putting his hand in the fire...the child does not know yet the consequences...so child is in fact blameless....?

[LadyW]

Well it depends entirely on the way you interpret this poem. I based this poem around something that happened to me and so I extract one particular meaning from the term "thoughtful sin." This is someone carrying out an act for personal gain and being ignorant of others feelings. Fearful of the consequences, the person lies and lies until it is painfully obvious. When asked the "big question", the person cannot being themselves to say anything out of shame and fear of confronation which the person his/herself provoked by carrying out such selfish actions.
The poem itself is rather ambiguous, it is open to interpretation. Different people can take different things from it.
:)

[Lote-Tree]

I meant in a hypothetical sense - which is worse? Thoughtful Sin or Unthoughtful Sin?

[Pendragon]

Whoa! Get back to the poem! Is this a Theological Seminary? :p A well-written poem, well balanced and a delight to read! And uh, a sin with no thought for the consequences it may bear for others I would call worse. If a man knows no one on his ship is ready to meet God, yet without telling them blows it up, giving none the chance to make amends, he has sent all to hell with himself, that is horrible. Now if he is forced to the decision and comes and tells the men, "Better make your peace with God we're gonna blow!" Then that's up to them, eh? :D

[LadyW]

Whoa! Get back to the poem! Is this a Theological Seminary? :p A well-written poem, well balanced and a delight to read! And uh, a sin with no thought for the consequences it may bear for others I would call worse. If a man knows no one on his ship is ready to meet God, yet without telling them blows it up, giving none the chance to make amends, he has sent all to hell with himself, that is horrible. Now if he is forced to the decision and comes and tells the men, "Better make your peace with God we're gonna blow!" Then that's up to them, eh? :D

Thankyou so much for the comment :)
Yes I totally agree, a sin such as that is so selfish; shows a disregard for others which has been imprinted in ones character for the long term.