Is it a sin
to celebrate the death
of my closest villain?
Is it a sin
to call it a win
when they take their last breath?
Is it a sin
to celebrate death?
If you grew up a Roman Catholic, maybe. Though how many have been eviscerated but the hands of god's religious. Too many. And I say, 'Bless me Father'...I have wept, gnashed teeth, and quietly laughed when a handful have 'gone on'. Worse though, I have had no feeling at all for the dead whose efforts to wreck me went out the windows of time. Why skip reunions and funerals? Why go, make the effort. The dead are gone. What they leave behind may live awhile hoping to be blessed.
This is scary to try to process. Really great poem - so thought provoking and causing me such great angst. I can't say I have a (fabulous term) "closet villain," but I do know I felt relief at one death and feel tremendous guilt waiting for the death.
If you grew up a Roman Catholic, maybe. Though how many have been eviscerated but the hands of god's religious. Too many. And I say, 'Bless me Father'...I have wept, gnashed teeth, and quietly laughed when a handful have 'gone on'. Worse though, I have had no feeling at all for the dead whose efforts to wreck me went out the windows of time. Why skip reunions and funerals? Why go, make the effort. The dead are gone. What they leave behind may live awhile hoping to be blessed.
Say two 'Our Fathers'.
This is scary to try to process. Really great poem - so thought provoking and causing me such great angst. I can't say I have a (fabulous term) "closet villain," but I do know I felt relief at one death and feel tremendous guilt waiting for the death.