Sonnet debate

[ Auxiliary Issues ] Actually, I think my 12th line is fine if you consider business to have 3 syllables...? But anyway, I stopped being a syllable Nazi. Regardless, I can assure you that my third sonnet is fine. Also, Pro's sonnet didn't seem to follow the A-B-A-B-C-D-C-D rhyme scheme, but again, these are minor issues and I'd rather concentrate on the actual quality of the poetry :) [ My Second Sonnet's Meaning ] I must say that Pro was actually off base with this interpretation. He seems to think that my poem expressed a sense of guilt about my life choices, or expressed sentiments of my own misguidance. I hope that Pro didn't think I was embracing God in my poem. In fact, I did the opposite - reject the idea of religion. Here's an explanation: The subject of my sonnet is closing their eyes to the actual nature of things, hoping that there is some sort of grand ecstasy to life that will take all of the pain and truth away. The subject resorts to closing their eyes to nature and letting an "insanity" or fantasy world take hold in which they feel religion (in this case Christianity) will take them away from all of their dreadful choices and actions - through the power, it seems, of Christ. Christ was never directly said, but very much implied. Moving on, the darkness is their realization of existence, and that it might not actually have a fantasy meaning behind it. The fantasy world - or religion - in which they use to cope with their realization of this is very much fake and just a reaction to blind themselves from the pain, which is why I said "like a shiver to warm the grim sadness." In short, the subject sells their mind and humanity to make a deal that the devil conducts all of the bad business in the world. Unfortunately for the author, they do not face what they come to fear most from their fantasy world (hell), but find a new hell: that they can no longer fight their first realization - that there is no fantasy world (religion/Christ) - and they are very much a natural part of nature and human. It is a poem of existentialism. [ Interpretation of Pro's Sonnet ] Pro seems to be discussing a situation of heart-break, particularly a break-up though not necessarily. Regardless of the circumstance, there seems to be the termination of an important relationship that Pro cannot forget. The person in the poem opposite the subject seems to have acted harshly, which caused Pro to question himself and his values. He is losing someone he loves to something beyond his control. In the end, he questions whether or not true love can even exist, since it always seems to end so painfully (and pain is the opposite of love). [ My Third Sonnet ] Beauty is truth as our nature implies; Blissful: Ignorance in requisition. Cloaking the axiom in clever guise; A libertine without superstition. Pregnant are the promises of a god; Disciples: beatitudes receiving. A lord masked in a miscreant's facade; No omniscience to disbelieving. If god's a ship in an ocean of lies, Then I am the captain seeking the shore. Instead of fostering our soul's demise, He's whispering the tall-tales of yore. My spirit endures the phantom raping, Whilst beauty and truth they are escaping.