For those with good intentions:

and for those who play bad devil advocate.

Evil will never
be understood.


unless it is left.


mentally
emotionally.


alone.


without
explanation.


You get rid of evil
you do not explain it.


By explaining it
You crossdress it.


You turn it good.


To get rid of evil
is to get tainted.


By and with it
as we purge it.


But there is more
to evil stains.


Evil first come
as good.


unseen.


Evil also comes
as bad
crossdressed.


Such crossdresser
is ever present.


Particularly.


When we trust
rationality.


Rationally.


Evil has two
Essences.


One is bad
And the other one.


We really
don’t know.


That essence
we don’t know.


lurks at every alley.


of our good
intentions.


To do good
is to get
a clean shot
at a moving target.


It changes
the nature
of good
as it moves.


It is not enough
to have good intentions.


With good
intentions
we end up
doing bad
to others.


Evil’s bliss.

Evil used to have a force, a vital force,

a force to shake, to deeply unsettle.


It played a role

a role to balance

to balance good.


When good was tainted

when things worked out

no longer as intended.


And we have gone

completely berserk.


Today

no one wants

to be evil.


no one wants

to announce it.


no one wants

to be its flag bearer.


Today we do

too many evil deeds.


and Good

fights to death

to make them

double evil.


While Good’s intentions

cover its own evil deeds.


Sprinkling them

with confetti.


Emboldened by

their higher moral.


Evil has gone underground

it no longer shows up

with its rational mind.


It has been jailed

In screens

like that of the Joker.


Like that of films

in screens

Screens of our minds.


Hidden, deeply stabbed

in the core of our souls.


Beaten up to rendition

like a healed wound

Master of stealth.


Evil is no longer

outside Good.


it is found

deep inside it.


Good is cumbersome

hard to explain

but easy

to show off.


We only see

and feel

and think

that which we can.


That which we want

to show off.


Good is no longer

visibly tainted

it has become

rationally cumbersome.


Legally complicated

and yet

emotionally

easy going.


Good is simple

very simple in deed.


Like a teddy bear

ready for cuddles.


We all feel it

and share it.


We want

to announce it.


In compassion

in kindness

humbleness

love and also peace.


Anyone for a hug?


Some are weary of Good

for the wrong reasons.


It is lack of trust

in the human condition.


Some are weary of Good

for the right reasons.


It is the attention seeking

to the surface.


Of our skins.


To the surface.


Of our minds.


Too much pettiness

and also compassion.


With our evils inside.


It no longer feels evil

We kill each other’s in joy.


I hope humanity

never reaches.


a mutual consent

to extinct each others.


In bliss.


Ulysses Alvarez Laviada

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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. Friedrich Hegel.

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