Sense Sonnet - Acher

 8th Deadly Sin

Pride and greed and wrath and envy,

Lust and gluttony and sloth, all

Seven of the deadly sins be

Around today from ancient call.

And each and all from time to time

I have been guilty, and so plead.

With them, without them, also I'm

Guilty of most often indeed

Being an untruthful one in

The words I do or do not say.

But unlike Pinocchio's sin,

My nose does not give me away.

To the seven deadly sins, I

Would add an 8th, it would be lie.