Torn and tattered, beaten and battered
She lay there, a lump of life constricted
Throbbing with intense pain inflicted
By hunky egos bloated in vain- glory and domination
Male 'PRIDE', on a mission of primitive glorification
Blood shot eyes, raving and ranting inanities
Blokes ‘FIRST SIN', on frail and tender entities
Masking weaknesses with a macho swag
Luring lasses, maidens, ladies and girls to brag
Parading a torso tough and a mind so bleak
With thudding hearts and throbbing bleats
Of addictions and compulsions countless
Fantasies and foolhardiness seamless
Emotions running riot as hormones go on a binge
As sanity and sensitivity just cringe
'ENVY', draining desires dubious and multiple
Bitterness bringing feelings that strangle
Ethics and sentiments wavering and wobbling
Crude intentions crumpling and crushing
Decency riding piggyback on emotions sliding
The 'SECOND SIN', of hoodlums ever degrading and deriding
Resentful in every sense of an expression
Standing brazenly with deceit and deception
'GLUTTONY', HIS feed and fodder for life
Ravaging the modesty of every feminine alike
Courting, cavorting and thrusting HIS might
Revelling in beastly pleasures of the 'THIRD SIN,' outright
Man's 'GREED', crushing every gentle and innocent flower
Before it blooms to its fullest
form and colour
Caught in the throes of this misladen manhood
Daring and daunting in his devilish hood
His libido, like lava streaming uncontrolled
Many a woman left devastated from sufferings untold
Of ghastly and gory 'FOURTH SIN OF HEAVEN',
Strumming HIS vanity strings brazen
'LUST' in those dark eyes, desire scorching HIS sensations
Raw and rugged emotions driving him to carnal compulsions
Yearnings and longings, leaving HIM spurned
Like wild agitations on roller coaster turns
'FIFTH SIN OF HEAVEN’s ruthless ramblings
With mind's reason and rationale utterly fumbling
Like a lazy 'SLOTH' man ambles, utterly depleted
Unleashing misplaced powers of manhood conceited
Parading his virility in the alleys of fantasy flights
Stumped by his own sins he falls from the mighty heights
Devoid of any guilt or mortification
He succumbs to the 'SIXTH SIN', of sheer intoxication
Yet defiant, obnoxious, untamed and unapologetic
The 'WRATH', of his spunky hunger nibbling at his senses
Ravaging and rummaging the modesty of innocence
Ripping off dignity and respect blatant
The 'SEVENTH SIN OF HEAVEN', croaking in defiance
The seven sins stewing in Satan's mind
Spewing Pride, Envy, Gluttony unkind
Greed, Lust, Sloth and wrath of a kind
Succumbing to this vicious cycle is mankind
Caught in the web of Seven Sins of Heaven
Man unleashes his satanic passion
Fighting, foisting, fooling and flashing
His intentions merciless and
flashing
The claws of mercenaries, the jaws of
brutalities
The Seven Sins of Heaven’s,
The Seven steps to Hell's afflictions
The inferno of lust and power
The hellfire of torture and ire
The Avernus of wicked and the wild
The SEVEN SINS OF HEAVEN'
Shaping man’s destiny and destination.
Shakuntala Kanakagiri is a post graduate in sociology (MA), a graduate in Home Science (BSc) and Education (B.Ed.). She has served as a teacher and a part time lecturer.
She has published two volumes of devotional songs named’ Kuntala Manasa Ramam’ and ‘Kuntala Manasa Vaani’ in Telugu.
In more recent times she has been featuring in a number of Facebook blogging portals in English for Let’s Make Stories, Asian Literary Society, Momspresso, Women’s Web, Poetry Planet, Chrysanthemum Chronicles, Penmancy, Poetry Parlour, Story Mirror, My Words: A Rennaissance,… etc
She has also won several contests on various blogging platforms and also her writings have been featured in several national and international anthologies.