We are the root of our blues;
we have only ourselves to blame.
T’is folly to point at one’s God,
and futile to wail and cry Fate!
Each of us paints their own mis’ry;
hue merely varied by degree.
Oh, yours is a darker degree;
none other suffers such blues?
You’re not the cause of your mis’ry;
some wickedness out there’s the blame?
A victim of dastardly Fate;
a cruel casualty of your God?
You rail in your cant against God;
curse him for your unfair degree,
or bare your teeth at vile Fate,
for machinating your blues.
Surely someone else is to blame
for your undeserved miseries!
Now judge the cause of your mis’ry -
you claim you were cheated by God -
divine intervention’s to blame?
Let’s turn up the heat a degree,
smoke out the source of your blues,
and real basis for your sad fate.
Since you didn’t author your fate,
not at the crux of your mis’ry -
what’s the reason for those blues
attributed to Fate or God -
innocence in the first degree?
Ah, your sanctity is the blame!
But how can your pureness be blamed;
don’t such saints rate a brighter fate?
Feel you’re getting the third degree?
Guilt shows the true fount of mis’ry;
while you make a scapegoat of God,
you splash your canvas with blues.
Hellbound with our blues, we fixed our fate
Our misery’s ours – so’s the blame
Satan, not God, will mete out
the final degree of our pain.
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I'm re-reading the entire Divine Comedy, and then move to Paradise Lost, so this is great to read at this time. Nice sestina. I have to try this soon, though I'm working on Sonnet form right now.
Wow, this is definatly one of my favorites!
The message is so strong and so clear!
The words so full of imagination.
Keep up the good work.
Keep Smileing,
SamiJo
We have none to blame for our own misgivings other than ourselves and our own cursed follies. We are the masters of our own fates, not our gods.
I loved the meaning behind this, and the way it was written. (the age rating could be different. I think it's appropriate for more than just eighteen and over).
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