Envy gnaws at the soul. This sonnet reveals the hollow ache of comparison and the corrosive desire for what is not yours.

7 Deadly Sonnets
Envy

I watch with eyes as green as ivy’s weave,
The fruits that others savor, ripe and sweet,
Each laugh, each joy, a cut that makes me grieve,
For all I lack, as bitterness repeats.

Their lives unfold, like tales I’ll never know,
Each cherished dream, each whispered, stolen kiss,
A golden world, untouched by sorrow’s blow,
While envy burns, a wound that can’t resist.

In silent suffering, I crave their grace,
To wear their smiles, to walk in others’ skin,
Yet envy scours all beauty from my face,
And leaves me hollowed, poisoned deep within.

In wanting what is theirs, I lose what’s mine,
A haunted shade, in envy’s twisted shrine.

The 7 Deadly Sonnets

I. Lust
My pulse quickens at each whispered breath, desires draping the air like silken chains. ‘Lust,’ the first of the 7 Deadly Sonnets, explores the fevered, consuming hunger that blurs the lines between passion and peril.

II. Gluttony
‘Gluttony’ devours more than food—it consumes the soul. The second of the 7 Deadly Sonnets explores endless craving, the hunger for excess, and the void it leaves behind.

III. Greed
‘Greed’ reveals the hunger that is never sated—the clutching hands, the endless thirst for more, and the hollowness left behind. The third of the 7 Deadly Sonnets.

IV. Sloth
‘Sloth’ captures the quiet paralysis of apathy, the weight of inaction, and the suffocating stillness that can consume the soul. The fourth of the 7 Deadly Sonnets.

V. Wrath
‘Wrath’ burns with uncontrollable fury, the tempest of anger that devours and consumes. The fifth of the 7 Deadly Sonnets, exploring the raw power of vengeance.