Waspleg

[Lai]

A decently long poem. I had fun writing it. The last stanza is somewhat weak but if you can look past it, I think it still delivers a solid message. I hope you can understand what I'm trying to get across.

And to me Saint Peter said,
"Now that thou art in heaven,
let us look across your life
for those dreadful little seven."

"No, no," said I, "that will not do;
a righteous life lived I.
Sins, my friend, befit not me.
Please grant me my seat in the sky."

"Well now," jest he, "calm your beatless heart.
If a virtuous life you lived
then what dangers here at my ivory gates
Shall to you a peace not give?"

And with a smile, his book opened wide.
Sealed fate I knew was mine.
For though not all seven did I commit,
Guilty was I of that of a lion.

"Oh, this is good," said the saint at the gate,
"it is good you were not a glutton.
From your figure I see that you will agree
as a glutton you will not be smutten."

"Nor sloth is of thee, which makes my heart beam,
as it is of far much too many.
And nor of wrath is blackened your heart.
Of those, we have sinners plenty."

As Saint Pete continued reviewing my life
the more nervous my resting soul grew.
When the chapter of pride my Saint Peter reached,
That is when my chance would be through.

Through avarice and lust the saint read on past,
and I know it was almost my time.
When envy was done, I held my breath long,
but for pride, he said I was fine.

"Please pass my dear friend," as he opened the gate
said to me the fair Saint Peter.
"But Corey," said he as I started my way,
"allow me to make something clearer."

"Though of pride you may think you are guity,
I assure you that it is not so.
Let me with you share a secret of mine
before to heaven you go."

"Confidence, my son, is not to be pride;
of which so many people do not see.
If for confidence each man was condemned,
there would be no one up here with me!"

And with that, my fine reader, was I sent on my way
to find missing loved ones in heaven.
A lesson to learn as your thinking brain turns:
there might just be room for you up in heaven.