What Wickedness?
What wickedness inhabits humankind?
What foulness lurks beneath the outer charm?
Our fantasies belie demure demeanour
such innocence is simply self-deception.
The thoughts which oft-times permeate the mind
need not necessarily alarm
yet lurk like some hysterical hyena
the smiling face a mask of pure perception.
Is some extreme malevolence enshrined
which seeks to cause the human spirit harm?
Can we by prayer or worship or novena
put paid to such perverted introspection?
Or is it simply something unrefined
which no amount of effort can disarm?
Each moral lapse, misconduct, misdemeanour
may be because of our own misconception.
Our thoughts and our desires are unaligned
but I for for one remain serene and calm
I walk empowered into the arena
no blame upon my lips, no pre-conception.