Lady Wisdom vs. Lady Folly 1/22-28

Dear Lady Folly

I can't believe I let you kiss me

with those poison lips

The fates warned me about you

with signs too obvious to miss.

I hang on your every word

As wind propels the bird

So I let your every whim

carry me until I had lost home.

You will not be adding me

to your endless list of victims

I will stand with wisdom

and enjoy a good homecooked meal.

I got this image from the imagery of Proverbs with folly being a woman who devours the innocent.

 

Young men (and women) are supposed to avoid the temptations that lure in the simple.  There is a price for the pleasure.

Folly says,

 

To those who have no sense she says,
¹⁷     “Stolen water is sweet;
    food eaten in secret is delicious!”
¹⁸ But little do they know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.