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7 Things I Thought You Knew

Lust [luhst]

- noun

intense sexual desire or appetite

 

  you know that's all we had;

"love" is a bed time joke

    and "happily-ever-afters" are stories that haven't finished yet,

 don't fool yourself into making this something it's not

 

Greed [greed]

-noun

excessive or rapacious desire

 

    funny how those two sound so alike...

 

you offered me the world,

       and though I said I didn't want to be greedy,

I just didn't want something else as dysfunctional as you.

 

Sloth [slawth]

-noun

habitual disinclination to exertion; idolence; laziness

 

It's always good to have a back-up definition of you

    (though "second rate" works too)

 

Envy [en-vee]

-noun

a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another

 

this was just a five-second-fling

   dragged out for far too long.

so baby envy doesn't even come into this equation

 

Gluttony [gluht-n-ee]

-noun

habitual eating to excess

 

 as sweet as you were

   I can only eat so much

 before I want to vomit.

 

Pride [prahyd]

-noun

a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.

 

   you always threw that at me

like the words alone had edges sharp enough to make me bleed.

    We both knew you had a venomous desire

  to see my blood on your hands.

 

Wrath [rath]

-noun

strong, stern, or fierce anger; deeply resentful indignation; ire.

 

  we just don't compare because baby boy,

I'll drop-kick your heart into the next century.

 

 

Author notes

I wanted to do a poem with incorporated dictionary definitions for a long time but never got around to it, so thank you to AliceNightmarexx (my gorgeous NeverEndingAcidTrip) for the inspiration.
All definitions were taken from dictionary.com

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  • thoudreamchild
    July 3, 2007

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    =)

    Oooo, aren't I so smart? The Seven Deadly Sins, what a creative idea. I particularly like the greedy part because it sounds like something I'd say.



    ~thoudreamchild


  • forbidden-colour
    June 24, 2007

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    "Sloth [slawth]

    -noun

    habitual disinclination to exertion; idolence; laziness



    It's always good to have a back-up definition of you

    (though "second rate" works too)"

    Oooo.

    I love your poems hun.x.

    Mwah
    x