The dreamed-up polarity

The dreamed-up polarity                                                                                    
 
A fantasy of retribution, then
a counter-thought of forgiveness,
 
shunning the first as my lower self,
embracing the second as the higher.
 
Or frame it as the false self and the True,
an angel battling the devil, or perhaps,
 
past life sanskaras impinging upon
present moment awareness and restraint,
 
or merely emotion versus reason,
anger versus poise, volatility versus forbearance. 
 
But all these depictions are rooted in duality,
which separates me from God and from others;
 
partitioning the world as well my interior being.
The way to spiritual poise is through Oneness,
 
not purity; not through becoming wholly one side
and none of the other.  It is not our sins
 
we must transcend but the dreamed-up polarity,
within and without, of our existence and ourselves.
 
O child of God, with virtue and sin you know
well the routine, but how to regain Oneness?