Demons 2 Poem by RIC BASTASA

we like to sin
we like to think that when we sin
it is not us that sin
but some demons pushing us to make the sins

even in sinning we need some escape goats
the demons made me do it
damn these demons in my head!
i am innocent
the demons pushed me to do the sins i do
they are so many of them
these damn demons in my head
and i am just alone
(my sweet conscience
implanted by God)

these damn demons
they push me on the dead-end edge where i can do nothing but sin

nice, human logic,
less responsibility for sinning because someone did the sinning for you

not me,
when i sin, i sin alone, i sin myself, and there is no escape goat to blame
there are no horns, no goats, no snakes handing me the apple to bite,
no adam no eve no cains or abels no genetics involved in here

i have sinned through my own fault.in my own fault,
in what i think, in what i do, in what i have failed to do,
in what i have failed to think,
and i ask all the angels and saints to help me get away from

my own faults, my own and nothing but my own
this sinning

my own responsibility and i ask my God to forgive me.