Masquerade Party

Masquerade Party

They walk the street distributing pamphlets

They are not allowed to receive gifts

They are not allowed to celebrate holidays

They are told they must suffer on earth to enter a limited space in their heaven

They are told those who don't enter will disappear like a burning flame

Author's Note

Could demons control and slave stupid persons by telling them there was limited space in Heaven then spit them to hell for them to disapear like a burning flame

Reviews

[Rene Salinas]

You seem to have developed abhility to be able to send me wondering in just a few lines SquinklaPsyOps and I do appreciate that a lot!!! At first it made me thing of that posture that some may have in life"Dead man walking" which becuase they think they know the outcome then there is nothing worth doing as the outcome will be a "deadening" but that will imply that they have self- awarness while the ones described in your poem are in some sort of obvlivious state.
I hope I am not invited to that party!!
Thankyou you do make me wonder

[Benita-Staebell M - Kin..]

Well the Devil can trick us but demons have no control over heaven
Even the devil try's to do things for his dark Kingdom but it ends up going to
good for God's kingdom as he created the Devil he controls
him so he can't go in harm who ever he wants he might pick on us and try to Torcher
us but we must know our Enemy.


Thank you for this Interesting piece.




Bu t yes some can be lead on like a string on
a puppet if they don't know their enemy and if
they are in the wrong church and feel they must worship
religion they are lost so many think it is religion when it is
Jesus we worship and have a relationship with.


Many mistreated me when I was little made fun of me
and I wasn't joining in to their Click I hate things like that
if I want to follow a crowd and be lost and not be who god made me
to be I wouldn't be the loving soul I am today life has thrown so many
curve balls at me I have learned grown Matured and dogged them.


Blessings. kindred poet

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Thank you for your interpretation, I like your view about religion which I agree with, I also like how you provided a life example of how the masses might try to influence persons into their groups which leads to believe that just as Jesus Christ we come into the world delivered by Angels and if we keep our faith we leave as Angels

[Benita-Staebell M - KindredPoet]

They say and which I am not sure it's true but babies if they died are Cherub's the smaller Angels but if a baby dies at birth they go straight to Heaven as they did nothing wrong
but angles in heaven won't understand when we cry out in Salvation we have a human body they sit at his feet obey him worship him there is a difference but if we go to heaven we will have a spiritual body not a human one so we will be given a different body.


You're very welcome. it's my pleasure always. blessings. kindred poet

[Eric Pudalov]

I must be honest - my first reaction when I saw the "masks" was that this was about a literal masquerade. But having read some of your previous work, I really never know what to expect.

This reminds me more of a particular religion (which I won't name here). Honestly, I don't understand the "rules" and regulations of certain churches and religions. Some of them *do* make sense to me (as I was raised in a particular faith)...but the more you think about and analyze much of this, I feel that you eventually, as an adult, must come to your own conclusions.

This is something I might consider writing about more - although I try to avoid starting arguments and being ultra-controversial. That's my nature, I think.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Thank you for your interpretation, your opinion is important, because it opens new venues to explore, such as when a person is born into a religion, does that person reunite with that person family only if they belonged to the same religion

[Eric Pudalov]

Hmm...that's a good question - I don't think that's necessarily true (reuniting with the family only if they belonged to the same religion). I think it has more to do with being close with the family members, religious or otherwise. But I also think if you relate to them on a religious/cultural level, it gives you another way to connect sometimes. I don't know you that well, but is it fair to say you have some issues with religion? I'm not against religion in general, but it's fanaticism that bothers me.

[Aethereal]

If Heaven had a limit, then it wouldn’t be Heaven. Hell's a place of confinement where we're boxed in like in a can of mustered covered sardines. Heaven is a deep blue sea where fish swim happy and free.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Thank you, I like your interpretation, it makes me see things in a different way.

[RedInk524]

I find it completely foolish for anyone to follow any religion. As an agnostic, i do not believe in any religion, but i do believe that there is a god. I am sure that at some point at the beginning of our history the true religion was there, but with time's fire and the ignorant foolishness of mankind that truth has long been hidden if not destroyed. The only people who know the truth are the dead and we all share that same fate, and so we really don't have long to wait. The truth is a mere bullet away.
However, as an agnostic i am also open to the possibility of there not being a god and have always pondered Nietzsche's inquiry of whether we are God's greatest blunder or God is our greatest blunder. But... I believe whole-heartedly that there is a god. Somewhere... And if not then i will find more comfort within that false reality than the harshness of our own.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

I know what you are saying and your intelligent message is appreciated and respected.

We are what we believe in and not what is tried to be forced on us.

In my opinion there are multiple religions out there and they are all to be respected except when one of those religions disrespects ours then we have the right to defend our beliefs in self defense.

Every religion that believes in God and as long as that God is about Goodness then everything is all right.

I respect you as a person and admire you as a writer and am getting ready to read your writings and hope that I can provide you with interpretations that could be valuable.

[RedInk524]

Much agreed. I may not agree with being a religious person but i won't hold it against someone who is. We will all see who is right when we die.
All i ask of anyone who reads me is to not feel obligated. I can go through a person's whole library reviewing every piece and not expect a single thing in return.

[ANM]

Who actually knows what is reality apart from the beat of your own heart.....

[Susie]

Stunning! Makes me hold my breath!

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Yeah, different types of religions trying to find a way to beat evil.

[MoriartyMesa]

Taping the mind, love the reverse, nice work.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Reminds me of Push the science fiction thriller where all that is fantasy.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

"Taping the minds" is very difficult for one person to do it usually takes a lot of persons and sophisticated technology to pull those magic tricks.

[Argonaut1]

Very intriguing and it says a billion things in just five lines. It reminds me of some pretty vivid memories of Baptist and Presbyterian fire and brimstone sermons that I had to endure growing up in Tennessee.

I'm a preacher's kid, and I've heard this interpretation, but I also remember my father's message. He taught me that when we screw up so bad and we think there is no possibility of God wanting us, we don't spend eternity in hell or any version of it. We're there for a while, and then God looks for us and he comes to forgive us, taking us with him to eternity. He does this ultimately because he loves us. It's a positive message and one that I still think I believe in my heart of hearts.

When I read this poem, of the billion things that it says in so few words, those are the two things I hear. Ultimately, what I'm saying, if I'm saying anything, is that your poem here has universal knowledge. God in all incarnations and all religions is a universal force with infinite knowledge that has seen our past, present, and future. You've done a marvelous job in bringing those thoughts to mind with this thought and spiritually provoking poem. Keep up the good work.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Thank you, your encouraging words have a lot of value to me.

When I wrote this poem was from observing persons doing physical effort to share and spread God's values and observing some persons trying to devalue their efforts.

Then started wondering what was causing that in those persons and arrived at the conclusion that demons were involved in deviating them from God, then I started observing why do some persons feel over power when they step on persons that are trying to make an effort and concluded that those actions are motivated, encouraged and supported momentarily by demons, then those persons are left to their own faith to feel some type of uncomfort later that the demons could use as another opportunity to take advantage again without their knowledge and that is how demons try to operate almost undetected.

[UC Poika]

It sounds more like JW's to me. Men can be more evil perhaps than some demons depending on how they use their helps I think.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

I think that there might be something behind those men that is provoking those actions in them, and that might be caused by persons fearing that evil exists and that aids evil to keep manipulating almost undetected.

[UC Poika]

I think that's very true.