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The Permanent Beast

May 8, 2024
By JJH456 BRONZE, Federal Way, Washington
JJH456 BRONZE, Federal Way, Washington
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Humanity will be destroyed by their beast

Not even they themselves can escape it

Trial, tribulation, but I know God

The descendants of the serpent and temptation

How could the Lord make the adversary stronger than man?

Left to ourselves, cast out of paradise

Contemplating what could be


Happiness or flashiness? 

How do you serve the question?

Epidemic upon epidemic of mental distress

Some of humanity thinks of themselves 

I ponder the actions of Helel

Striving for the freedom and potential of man

To grow feathered wings, forming strong gusts,

and become gods of their own

Are we not similar?


“How you have fallen from Heaven,

O star of the morning, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the Earth,

You who have weakened the nations!”


Pride is the perfect, permanent enemy to humanity

Just as it was to the Morning Star of Heaven

God knows not to be prideful, God changed

Knowing of humanity’s wrongdoings

The permanent beast within humanity will emerge again 

Humans are the children not of the Tetragrammaton

Humans are the children of the Fallen Morning Star


The author's comments:

As I write this, in the afternoon of May 8th of 2024, I am a senior in high school. My inspiration of this poem stems from my interpretations of the motivations of Lucifer, the Morning Star as outlined in the Bible. I haven't read the scriptures, as I am agnostic, but religion greatly interests me. I decided to write about how Lucifer's downfall is not coincidentally also humanity's downfall.


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