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# Choices
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/choices-16228980/
- Published: 2021-11-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: for help in finding evil's source one first must understand, of course what evil actually is it seems as easy as a breeze is it a glitch? character flaw? (do try avoiding Godwin's Law) banality would soon emerge leadi...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

for help in finding evil's source  
one first must understand, of course  
what evil actually is  
it seems as easy as a breeze  
is it a glitch? character flaw?  
(do try avoiding Godwin's Law)  
banality would soon emerge  
leading contender for the scourge

but all those explanations lack  
the clarity of white and black  
a lack of empathy and care  
is not sufficient, though it's there  
the universe itself observes  
but hardly interferes, it serves  
to purely keep a going score  
it's surely neutral in its core

when thinking about god and love  
and absent all of the above  
does evil simply manifest  
as a celestial trial? a test?  
a sorting challenge for your soul  
which isn't really in control?  
free will be damned  
they had you jammed!

no, that's too easy, is it not  
we all know, and if not, we ought  
that choices are what makes a man  
and choices, never mind the plan  
choices for evil, or for good  
choices considered, understood  
we are our choices, they are we  
and evil's source? it's you and me

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792617-The-source-of-evil