Sin said,
“You and I”   
these years
dance the fandango
yet I am unacknowledged by you;
am I not the source of your best
dark pleasures;
do you not come to me
in my many forms
drugs, alcohol
adultery,
greed, revenge, money
in your dark needs?
Am I not
your Secret
Dark,
Delicious

Night-Time Lover,

yet you spurn me in the light;

reject me

refuse to acknowledge

that I am underneath
your brother
your raison d’etre
not the pious Virtue you profess?

Am I not your Secret Ruler
which in the Light of Day
makes of you the Hypocrite?

 

“You Sin” I said
“are my weaker side
 my downfall to resist;
my Failure
my Misery

the source of my unhappiness
that much is true
No, you  I’ll not celebrate
you are not my fate.

Redemption

is what I seek

not your adulation

“Adulation?”
 Sin said

“no that is not what I seek

from you

that would be too

cruel an  Irony.

Rather what I seek”
Sin said
leaning close

“is the calm rationality

which states honestly

that without me

you would have no guideposts

between what is good and evil.

I am your guide

this tells that part of you

which way is up

which way is toward the good.

“I Sin said

“am your Secret Muse
without  which you would be lost
and too,
it is you who created me

and now
you piously seek to deny

as alien from you.

No I am your blood brother

without whom you

Virtue

would not exist.”

Sin paused

“But too, I want from you

that acknowledgement that
 I, too,

am your own Secret Delight

allowing you in the Light
to pursue the Pious Good

while clandestinely partaking of me

in your darkest night
angel and whore
simultaneously.

“Without me”
Sin said grandly
“there is no salvation
no lessons learned.

Without my
stabs at your consciousness
you  would simply be in life

adrift

and let’s be clear

if behavior is to be our guide

I am the one secretly loved

not you Virtue
because you are boring.

Indeed take any man, woman or child

introduce him to your path or mine

each will choose my excitements

over yours.

this is plain” Sin said

"ask yourself which is more common

among you

I and my cohorts

or your Virtuous few?

I reign in almost all societies

you are the plain minority

and that my friend is plain truth;

look about you.

Thus, I ask you objectively

which do you humans most often choose
plain vanilla do-good virtues

or myself;
few among you are without sin
this even your muses believe
who in the end really resists
my Siren Calling Card?

I said
“Sin you have shortened sight

because while what you describe

is certainly true some times

what is more true

and most importantly

is that while you Sin are most delicious

in the short run

you and your minions,
Greed for example,
left unchecked
can and will  destroy the planet.

What good triumphal  triumph

if none of the Virtuous
you seek to tempt
survive

to be tempted by you?
That sir makes no sense
and, is in in fact,

suicidal and that perhaps is your

true legacy.

No sir

I said, while I and others may fall to your wiles

most are resurrected by Hope whose message

is clear

survival depends most
upon those

Virtues
you denigrate

not the Sins

with which you tempt.

Thus, it is you sir

who require I

and the other Virtues

because if we are no more

you too

would cease to exist

and you do

each time

anyone of us

chooses Love

over all the rest

you represent.

Now away

because I see in your eyes

I tempt you as well
and upon me you depend

not vice versa

and if my message

invades you

surely you understand

you would simply cease to exist.

Slink away Sir Sin

for your own survival’s sake.

Sin roused himself

the realization of defeat gathering
in his eyes

You Sir Virtue are clever indeed.

can I tempt you with one last kiss?

Virtue smiled.