Antithesis -

This vision lies before me

The urge to murder the soul

This foreign entity

A stranger inescapable

A face so unfamiliar

Yet shown in every wayward smile

Behold the lord of the flies:

The impulse swarming in my chest

Undulate inconsistently

Wavering sporadically to no resolve

The fate laid out before me slipping away ephemeral, tentative

I am not the author of my wayward dreams

Save mercy for the guilty

Ever-present help in my time of need

The accuser will acquit me

I hurl my curses to you

Yet find them damning me

The mirror image that taunts me

The scathing spite that I know

Cancerous contaminant

Ravaging my righteous soul

Despite antipathy

I see now my dependence

Though I invite your overthrow

I don’t beckon your severance

Your audience gives me comfort

That my will has been undermined

If my charity has been usurped

Then damn forgiveness, I’m justified

I am not the author of my wayward dreams

Save mercy for the guilty

I’ll call upon the universal scapegoat

Ever-present help in my time of need

The accuser will acquit me

(I'll wear my shame underneath a lambskin)

You are the embodiment

Of all my avarice

Archetype of my resentment

You are malevolence in me

(Incarnation is a myth)