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and there is no health in me
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Rape and murder are close To the centre of my soul, So too larceny and battery. I am neither good nor virtuous If I would so live I must know The monster that lives within. If I begin to think of myself as Good And revel in my "virtue", the monster wakes. If I deny the darkness in my soul The gross injustice of my heart The monster stirs, stretches Slips its chain and is free One truth remains, relentless, constant as the sea There is no evil in the world that does not include me...
--------------+------------------ when heavilly armed men start calling each other evil it is time to duck, and examine our own heart... title comes from psalm 51

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Reviews of "and there is no health in me"

Reviewed by Glen Lovelace

Reviewed on April 12, 2004

Ah, yes! The SHADOW do indeed know (and re-remind) what the Personae would, individually and collectively, ignore!
GDL (I-MAGE)

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

Reviewed on April 12, 2003

AMEN...powerful! resounds with truth! thank you for posting this...(((HUGS))) and love, karla. :)

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes

Reviewed on February 15, 2003

There is no evil in the world that does not include me...
Are you evil???
love
tinka

Reviewed by Tien Avielle (Reader)

Reviewed on January 9, 2003

and there is no health in me - it is this knowledge, and the willful suppression of these dark things, that put you on a truer path, I believe.

Reviewed by krissy

Reviewed on January 5, 2003

extraordinary write. it is the hardest thing for 'man' to do..to stop and examine ones own flaws and to recognise them. it is much easier to see them in 'his brother'.
funny..ironic...we recognise them..because they are a part of ourselves.
hugs and all
krissy

Reviewed by krissy

Reviewed on December 11, 2002

one fine, truthful poem

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