The Judas Kiss – Gustave Doré
And each man kills the thing he loves
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
— Oscar Wilde
Why is it that we kill that which we love?
That is the task Paulo Coelho is set by his Master J, a Master of The Tradition. These few lines, a slight variance of a verse from The Ballad Of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde is the only help that Paulo Coelho gets.
That we kill that we love is a curse. Paulo Coelho has to break that curse. It is a quest in which he is forced to face his past. The curse can be broken, but only if he completes the task.
It´s for love. For victory. And for the glory of God.
As Paulo learns from the Valkeryies, the only was to break the curse is to: Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. And make a bet.
We all have a pact with defeat. We have to learn to take risks, break the pact with defeat.
– The Valkeryies
– Suffering
Top story in PoeticHeart34 Daily (Saturday 12 March 2011)
Tags: love, Oscar Wilde, Paulo Coelho, poetry, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
March 12, 2011 at 10:43 pm |
Beautiful!
Break the pact with defeat, break the spell that says no to life..
thank you dear Keith for this reminder
Love and Gratitude
Annie
March 13, 2011 at 2:11 am |
A pleasure Annie and thanks for your kind words.