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Topic: ENVY (jealousy of another’s advantage) (02/12/15)
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TITLE: The Green-eyed Monster Gets His Due | Previous Challenge Entry
By Verna Cole Mitchell
02/18/15 -
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Corrupting and debasing
Poor unsuspecting innocents,
Their purity erasing.
He darted poison to their hearts
With vilest kinds of venom
Till they were wracked by jealousy
And grudging thoughts within them.
They felt the flames of discontent
That scorched them through and through.
They burned for what they did not have
As inner fires grew.
Held captive were they by desires,
Their lust for others riches,
Their talents, and especially,
Achievement of ambitions.
Then one day he became aware
Of nature all around.
The birds and animals he saw
Had beauty to astound.
The snakes with iridescent scales
That glinted in the sun,
And many-colored singing birds—
All left him quite undone.
He had no comeliness at all
And never owned a song.
The only skill that he possessed
Was tempting to do wrong.
By tools of his own arsenal
He found himself injected,
Then bound by toxic viruses—
Eternally infected.
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'Eternally infected.'