Pleasure Of DECEIT

Pleasure Of Deceit

Pure I arrived in this beautiful world,
Sin bought my heart and scourged it, my weaknesses have unfurled.
Worthless am I, yet with a worthy task at hand,
The task to undergo purgation from sin and with victory stand!

But I am weak, Weak! Weak! Weak!
Chance of victory looks bleak! Yes! Bleak!
I am a captive, captive of this world!
My journey has begun! To cleanse my heart, the blackened pearl!

Perpetual is the path that lies ahead,
Thorny and filled with deceitful diversions. My heart lies in dread!
Hope seems to have abandoned me!
Yet I feel strong! Something resides within me!

A weapon! Invisible! Invincible!
Yes! Faith I have! Unmatchable!
Wait! The fruit that dwell beside the thorns tempt me!
The fruit so attractive, the thorns I do not see!

I consume the fruit, Delectable!
I feel pain, my body aches, venomous deceitful fruit! Despicable!
I drop the fruit, my palm is wounded!
Blood flows out of the deep wound, I am astounded!

The thorns! Blinded with desire was I, the thorns I didn’t see
The fruit I picked disregarding the thorns, the wound conquers me!
A mysterious voice penetrates my mind,
Urging me to pick more of the fruit, every single one I can find!

And thus I am taken captive by the mysterious voice of evil in me
The more fruit I consume, the more the fruit consumes me.
Hope is lost, bitter death is a surety
The thorns penetrate deeper, and still the fruit control me with commanding authority


Just when the anguish arrives at its peak,
And my proud arrogant heart admits it is weak!
I remember the weapon! Invisible! Invincible!
I use it! Faith! Its wonders unbelievable!

I am saved! I continue journeying along the path of deceit,
The path in which lurks evil, waiting to rejoice in my defeat!
The false pleasures of the path turn me into a vile contemptible wraith!
Yet, when all hope is lost, with me lies a weapon of unconquerable strength, Faith!

Screamjack


Alright! I guess you would have got an idea of what this one's trying to reveal.
It tries to portray a journey through which a person addicted to drugs normally goes through. Alright, since this poem is narrated in first person, I'll refer to the narrator as narrator! So, the narrator speaks about how he arrives in this world with a pure heart and how he is captured and scourged and tormented by sin. And gradually he starts to speak about the path of deceit, that is of course the path we call Life! Previously to this he explains how his chances of revival after the defeat to sin look very bleak and how he begins his journey to cleanse his heart from sin! Like he says in the first stanza... Purgation from sin!
In the second stanza he puts his point across very clearly that he is a captive of sin and we have the metaphor of Blackened Pearl which of course refers to his heart. So from this last line of the second stanza we are made to understand that we arrived as pure hearted men in this world, and our hearts which were pearl white have been blackened by sin!
Now, the journey through the path of deceit begins in the third stanza. The narrator says the path is thorny and filled with deceitful diversions! Now the thorns refer to the hardships of life and the deceitful diversions are the shortcuts we try to take in life but well end up totally in the wrong destination!
And in the end of the stanza the narrator exclaims that something resides within him! Something like a force.
In the beginning of the next stanza he says it's a weapon, meaning a weapon against sin, one that is invisible and invincible! And he goes on to say that this weapon is faith! But then he sights attractive fruit that are next to the thorns and he is overcome with temptation to eat the fruit for it looks delicious. This is an indirect comparison to the fruit of the evil world(drugs and other addictive things) that men are lured to. The fruit is so attractive that the narrator forgets the harmful thorns and he walks to the fruit and picks it and eats it and exclaims that it is a delectable!... Over here it is brought out that initially a person who has tried out a drug finds it very amusing and starts to love it!
Now the narrator exclaims that he feels pain! An ache in his body and he throws insults at the fruit terming it as venomous and despicable! This is how a person who has done a drug realizes that it causes more problems than pleasures and regrets ever doing the drug.
The narrator then drops the fruit and realizes he has been wounded deeply by the thorn and so deep was his desire to eat the fruit that he was unaware of the thorns. This refers to how a person realizes that the consumption of drugs is causing a lot of harm to his body and a lot of social problems as well.
The narrator then says a mysterious voice is in him which urges him to eat more of the fruit.
This is a reference to how even if a person desires to stop his or her bad habits when he or she realize that it is causing a lot of problems, the are unable to and are controlled by an involuntary force within them which is the strong addiction to the drug. The narrator then talks about how he has been taken captive by the fruit and how the thorns continue to torment him mercilessly. He goes on to say the more of the fruit i consume, the more the fruit consumes me!!!!!! This explains how the more a person indulges in drugs, the more control the drug gets of the person and it becomes almost impossible and hopeless for the person to free himself of the addiction. Then the narrator explains how is assured of death and how the thorns pierce him deeper. This refers to all the physical problems caused by the drugs to a person and how death looks certain and even in this hopeless situation the person cannot free himself of the addiction, this is a reference to when the narrator says and still the fruit control me with commanding authority!
Then the narrator explains how at the peak of the tormenting anguish, and when his heart in all it's pride and arrogance admits it is weak, he finally remembers his unconquerable weapon called Faith and how it helps to free him from the thorn and fruit! This is a reference to how on the verge of death, all hope is not lost and one who turns to faith will be saved! Then the narrator in the last stanza explains how even though he has been saved this one time, ahead in the path lurks evil waiting to rejoice in his defeat! This refers to how even once a person is freed from addiction, he is always under constant threat of getting addicted again and only if remains strong in faith will he be free of he evils of this world forever!
In the end the narrator explains of how the deceitful gifts of the path turn him into a hopeless wraith(definition: A wraith is an apparition of a person, living or dead, that may appear shortly before or after death. The appearance of a wraith is often considered to be an omen) and how even when all hope was lost he remembered that he always had a weapon of unconquerable strength that invincible, and that weapon could be used by turning to Faith!!!!!!
This poem basically brings out the idea of how when one has Faith, no evil of this world can overcome that person and the best example of a person in addiction is taken in this poem , it is brought out that only strong faith in the Light above can give a person strenght to reject the temporary deceitful evil pleasures of this world, and the end of the poem explains how even when all hope is lost, a diversion from evil ways towards faith would always save you!