Shrine of Greed
- Hashtag Kalakar
- Oct 16
- 2 min read
By Elyssa Mitts
I watched you worship your god
I listened to you chant your prayer
I smelled the blood that you offered
I tasted the flesh that you cut
I felt the love that you wanted
You are an intriguing one indeed
You wished for lovely things
Different from those who surround you
You understand what lays deep in your heart
Continue to crave for your wants
These people are tainted by society’s words
Asking for money or power or control
Offering up souls or bodies or favors
Yet the bodies of others and not themselves
They don’t truly understand greed
Sin creeps into even the brightest of places
But people assume it lurks only in shadows
So they ask the shadows to spread
Not knowing that sin is standing beside them
These people don’t get wishes coming true
You asked the sin standing right next to you
Yearning heartlessly for more lovely things
Because you believed sin to be your friend
You will be granted lovely things
Just as you have been granted before
Because you sacrificed your blood and flesh
But were careful to keep your soul and favors
You will get what you crave and desire
But you will come back once more
Because you only get little and never enough
You will continue to crave and desire
You will continue to want lovely things
You will continue to get lovely things
But you will never get a lovely life
Because you befriended sin
But I bid you to return
Your company is pleasant
Your blood and flesh are delicious
So visit me again dear human
At my shrine that revels in your greed
By Elyssa Mitts

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