Evil, Innocence and the Human
It was that Innocence was seated across
from Evil and the Human
the latter two uneasy in Innocence's Presence
yet both craved her beauty, her purity
her lack of guile
her virginal chastity.
Innocence did not hide her embarrassment
'What is it, ' she said
'that each of you pursue in me?
I have many suitors but you two are most persistent;
I have heard each of you declare your love
each iterating
it is my guiltlessness which attracts you;
my State of Being Without Sin
which excites you.
What is it about? '
Evil spoke first
'Well for me, ' he said
glaring at Human
'is that you are not duplicitous,
guileful as Human is,
and I must too
confess
I lust after this
which is out of my reach.
Too many do not understand'
Evil continued
'that I too was once Innocent
and was horribly defiled
by Human who took my Virginity
crushed it;
took my Chastity
by force
such is the history of how
Evil is born from Innocence
wronged
thereafter vows there and then
are made
for revenge
against the Defilers;
thus is Evil born.
Human here holds to the view
that he is Innocence still
guiltless
stealing thereby Innocence
your soul
your rightful place.
Humans are not pure,
nor evil most
but racked with the sin of self-delusion
of False Morality;
False Statements;
and
Guilty Silences.
That is why he Courts you
to seize what he no longer possesses
and that is why I am his true rival
his true beau;
he too
wants to possess what perhaps
he once had
but has relinquished in his non-moral world.
After these crimes
he too
is silent to atrocities
he blames me
not seeing he
is as well as I
has Innocence's failure
those silent lustings
either not our triumphs.
Human glared at Evil;
'You dare to compare yourself to me;
at least I possess the honesty
to speak my soul while
you hide yourself beneath
False Pride's Veil
finger pointing to me
while I at least
acknowledge that I Am Beast
Lost and Hopeless
as I
long for the Kiss of Beauty
this being the only way to redemption
for me.
But you Human
hide from I
and
Innocence here
concealing
your true intent
under smarmy
Platitudes of Love.
It is not Innocence you love;
she is your own fantasy
of your own Lost Innocence
seeking to suck away
from True Innocence Here
her vitality
in a Narcissistic Orgy
of self-regarding.
No, this is not love
only Guilt Masquerading
as love.'
Human stood up
taking Innocences' hand
'Evil is
as
Evil speaks
and proves himself
Evil True
by his Evil words
so lost is he
so far he is
fallen from Grace
he now does embrace Evil All
and tries to make
of it
a Virtue
mocking those who
still remember
and strive for
your hand
to unite
Innocence Past
and Innocent Present.
I have not yet abandoned
Hope as Evil has;
I will not embrace
Mayhem and Riot
Bitter from Innocence lost;
rather we Humans
at least some of us
keep our eyes posted
on that which is Good
even as we might fail
to achieve its glow
we nonetheless
still have eyes to perceive
it most.
Evil seeks to possess for himself
lustily
you and your Innocence
to replace his own
Lost Soul
only to lather upon his crimes
more infamy
deluding himself
into thinking himself not Evil
yet powerful enough
from his loss
to seduce you
nay, deserve you
and if
unsuccessful
will force you to his will
if you resist.
Look away
He, Evil is known by his deeds.'
Innocence
looked at the two
confused
in the discourse
finally speaking;
'I am distraught.
In you Evil
I do see the Beast
powerful
yet yearning
to be with me
wanting whatever
you think I have to offer
but you are a Beast
and I have no truck
with beastly things
which have eaten other things raw
even as they have pleaded
for their lives, for their case
and livelihood
yet you have denied this very same
to others
all the while
claiming this is done
because you were not loved
and therefore
chose power
over others
as your just reward;
Evil your
substitute and
recompense.
But I ask you Evil
did you not have choices other? '
Evil did not reply
but after a while said;
'It did not seem so
my lady,
so strong my harm,
my hurt
my disappointments
at such a young age
I felt
there was nothing for me
in this world
aged three I was
and desperate
I sought a wedge to meaning
in declaring that if I am not to be loved
then I shall be feared
and seek
my measure
of
revenge.'
Human smirked.
'Poor choice;
harmful choice
bad choice'
Human said.
Innocence looked at Human
Know Human
your heart
puzzles me too
because you come to me
cloaked in many veils
such that I cannot see your
True Face
fathom the real you
such that
I cannot fair
discern
Artifice from Truth.
You Human if you did not turn Evil
have covered yourself in
a Too Bright Morality
sipping from a self-made
Guiltless Soup
such that whomever
resides in your house
is difficult to see clearly.
Beast is at least clear to see
but Human which is you-
Beast or feckless Morality? '
Evil said:
'You are wise Innocence
to see clear to essences
because I am Evil
mostly because of my crimes
of these I am doubtless guilty
but Morality here
tolerates me
solely to hide his pretenses
and stealthy Pride Concealed:
he sucks from your teat.
His crime is more difficult to see
but makes me
Evil
possible
by this
and I might add
becomes
my Evil twin
in this hypocrisy
this colossal
willingness
to kill in moralities name
meantime claiming
he is doing it all in your name.
Does Innocence's hands have blood upon them?
I think not
yet blood
is spilled there by those
killing in your name.'
Innocence
spoke:
'What have we here
is you both can employ
or continence
anathemas
I detest
and claim
my suitor to be.
What I think about all this
is never beseeched, or requested.
If war is to be made in my name
I will not bless Gun, nor Sword
nor conceit
or duplicity
and remain true to my
own conceptual self.
I am defined by what I have not done
indeed by my sheer ignorance of what you
Evil
are truly like,
or even what you Human are like
as adult.
Because you both have branded me a child
because
I lack your experience
as if I would
in gaining them
become a woman of the world
and by doing so
be
no longer virginal
no longer indeed Innocence.
I
in my repose
ponder my own dilemma
how to embrace womanhood
yet remain Innocent and Virginal;
how to have intercourse
with those evil
and those duplicitous.
How am in this to gain
Wisdom Judicious?
For now I give it a name
forsooth;
for me now
a single word will suffice.'
Innocence said
'I will call it
'Integrities Wisdom.'
And I unsplit
must continence
the split
you two
evince.'
because this
you both
share.'
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem