Inspiration Comes Gracefully:
A/N: I submitted this for the DA's 7 Deadly Sins contest! Wish it luck!
Pride.
What is pride. Is it the man on the corner wooing a woman but has a wife? Or is it the triumphant little boy carrying home a lost kitten.
Maybe it's the woman who discovers a pill that prevents pregnancy and flaunts herself for all to see. Perhaps pride is a sin, in which the partaker has an infinite burst of pleasure, then careens back to the ground on his face.
Does Pride really go before a fall?
Or maybe comes the fall, then the Pride to match it. Because in the end, that man will succeed in his seduction, that kitten the boy carried home will die in it's sleep, and the woman.. The woman will become pregnant. Of course the payment of sin is supposed to be death, sin in it's ripest hour gives birth to death.
Death meaning the boy the woman had?
The man with a wife and the pregnant woman, maybe their boy is death. The pride in his sin, the man with the wife has another virginity under his belt and the flaunting woman has a boy, growing up without a father to call him his pride.
Maybe the sin gives birth to death is the way the boy grows up.
Pride, the sin, being the gun to the man's head and pulling the trigger as the boy questions the corpse where he's been all the boy's life. And while the man's 'pride' is killed, the boy turning the gun on himself and shoots, the man's wife and the boy who brought the kitten home, weep without knowing the father's pride.
The boy without a father.
Pride.
Is it really a sin?
When the boy who brought home the kitten grows up to be nothing like his father? And he loves the woman he one day married, carrying on their marriage with pride and his first child, his pride and joy, is born the day his father dies, turning the day of mourning into a celebration.
We will
never know.
Pride.
Is it the man on the corner with the flaunting woman... Or is it the man's wife and her boy mourning the death of the kitten as pride is brought into the world..
That answer, is in the eye of the beholder.
That means, you decide.