Gist of "Distorted Melodies"

Clearer Melodies

            Ever since I posted the poem “Distorted Melodies”(click to read), people have approached me and told me that the poem is fine, but they didn’t really see what it meant. So I decided to go ahead and write this gist to help readers to see it in a new light.

            When God, at first made man, He showered on him all His blessings, perhaps more than was reasonable. So the angels, who had been perfect beings till then, suddenly felt insecure. God sensed this and took away from them their place from heaven.

            Infuriated by this insult, the angels descended upon mankind, blaming them for their loss of paradise. But before they brought judgment upon man, they posed a question before them: “For as long as you’ve existed, you’ve always lived in an illusion of control. You claimed strength that was not your own. Now, we threaten your very existence, and yet you seem undisturbed. Why is it that despite your imperfection, you do not fear us?”

            And in reply, the wisest man of their times spoke, “you speak the truth. We are indeed far from perfection. But that is because we took birth from imperfection itself. We always chase perfection, even when we know we cannot reach it. But in that flash of a moment we call life, we enjoy far more than you could with your immortality. Knowing that we cannot live forever makes us grateful for the simplest pleasures. And so, we are beloved of the Lord. But you claim to be perfect. You are said to be symbols of love. You claim to have renounced the 7 evils (Greed, Lust, Pride Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth and Envy). Yet you have no heart. So I ask you this: have you truly renounced all evil? Is it not that you envy us? Is that not why He disavowed you? So even if these might be the last words we humans speak, they will be the ones remembered throughout the universe, across the ages. So wallow all you like in envy of us, but no one shall remember you.”

            And then the Lord spoke, revealing the true designs. This was a test staged by Him to see how strong the humans believed. And He praises the humans for passing His test, for Believing.