More Poetry
This poem needs a lot of editing... I'm not sure I'm happy with it, I think I need to add more to it. Oh, well. It's a work in progress.
The voices that have invited themselves
Into my head without my consent
Seem always to be chattering
Talking to me
Never on a useful subject
But instead are only trying
To confuse me utterly and entirely
By the nonsense of their pretty, hatefilled words.
At once they tell me that
What I do is right
What I do is sacred
And men will applaud my actions.
Wearing the twin costumes,
One of angelic beauty,
With a form full of heavenly grace
Complete with white feathered wings,
The other costume being the
Impish, horned and evil devil
Pitchfork, cloven-hoofed, with pitchfork.
This other costume tells me that what I do
Is never nearly good enough
That everything should
And could be better
That I have layed my hands on.
These costumes the voices wear
While on the outside being completely different
Are, on the inside, one and the same.
This leads to the question I can only ask myself
What's a man to do when
It seems his own worst enemy is himself?
The voices that have invited themselves
Into my head without my consent
Seem always to be chattering
Talking to me
Never on a useful subject
But instead are only trying
To confuse me utterly and entirely
By the nonsense of their pretty, hatefilled words.
At once they tell me that
What I do is right
What I do is sacred
And men will applaud my actions.
Wearing the twin costumes,
One of angelic beauty,
With a form full of heavenly grace
Complete with white feathered wings,
The other costume being the
Impish, horned and evil devil
Pitchfork, cloven-hoofed, with pitchfork.
This other costume tells me that what I do
Is never nearly good enough
That everything should
And could be better
That I have layed my hands on.
These costumes the voices wear
While on the outside being completely different
Are, on the inside, one and the same.
This leads to the question I can only ask myself
What's a man to do when
It seems his own worst enemy is himself?