If my virtue requires a villain
I can be sure that I’m duping myself,
dabbling in duality with a quality
that belongs to another realm.
True virtue is God-sent, borne
of benevolence, humility and equanimity.
It breaks us down – nearer to dust and ashes.
Virtue that lifts us above others
is a subtle self promotion, an empty grand gesture
that for whatever good it does,
adds to the darkness, the ignorance
and hypocrisy of ourselves and the world.
O child of God, in the depths of a ruse
nothing is ever completely what it seems.
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