i chanced upon a heavenly sight
roaming through the northern lands
a beauty lithely gliding quick
a verdant field of lilac haze
remote echo of soothing song
swelling through the twilight air
by subtle sign she beckoned me
and running swift did i reply
but only near could i detect
tarnished streaks on a marred halo
that distant song was no melody
but weepings of a wounded sylph
and when i saw her blood stained gown
i embraced her close with streams of tears
i closed my eyes and cried to Heaven
a fervent prayer for this tortured belle
through my back came that searing sting
soon displaced by pangs within
and whence my eyes opened once more
the angel before me had limped away
all remaining for me to grasp
a fiery blade deep in my heart
while He above knows all my pain
commands me forever to forgive
MYHL
11/12/07
Copyright © 2007 Marc Y H Landeweer
November 12, 2007
January 28, 2007
Two Saints & Two Sinners
I ran into my evil twin
And found it strange to see
How his black heart had no more sin
Than that which dwells in me!
MYHL
1/28/07
Copyright © 2007 Marc Y H Landeweer
Commentary: This work is both facetious and serious. It is facetious in that while I consider myself mildly evil, I think (or at least I hope) I've got a ways to go before an "evil" counterpart and I would actually have the same black-heartedness. This is a serious poem in that as humans we are thusly all born into sin. A man who sins every now and then is no less a sinner than a man who sins habitually. Conversely*, this also means that within us all is some goodness; no man is purely a sinner. We are all "simultaneously saints & sinners" (See the works of Luther for a more theologically grounded explaination)
(* Not meant as a formal logic argument...for those math or philosophy nerds out there)
And found it strange to see
How his black heart had no more sin
Than that which dwells in me!
MYHL
1/28/07
Copyright © 2007 Marc Y H Landeweer
Commentary: This work is both facetious and serious. It is facetious in that while I consider myself mildly evil, I think (or at least I hope) I've got a ways to go before an "evil" counterpart and I would actually have the same black-heartedness. This is a serious poem in that as humans we are thusly all born into sin. A man who sins every now and then is no less a sinner than a man who sins habitually. Conversely*, this also means that within us all is some goodness; no man is purely a sinner. We are all "simultaneously saints & sinners" (See the works of Luther for a more theologically grounded explaination)
(* Not meant as a formal logic argument...for those math or philosophy nerds out there)
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