Devil's Advocacy

Shallow innocence judges swift
A fear as real as fit
Proud as hell not to mention it
Her thoughts pleaded a final word


She’d wondered for long
In the worldly space
Your secret of retaining that childlike purity
And how you evaded her sinful touch
Mystery being her creation
She undid it when she wanted you revealed
Found you out and understood,
She hates you and loved
She did.

Your trick lay,In your resolute denial
To bite the Apple,That she offered
You rejected at every turn
What the ousted crowd of Eden
Believed giving life a chance
A chance was all she needed
To enter your life and never leave

Sometimes she was fooled
To believe you followed in her steps
But you always walked back half way through
Leaving her, standing there
Salivating with unrequited desire
And impotent anger.
For she could do nothing to you
That you didn’t invite
U knew that truth
U knew her defeat.

Do not take pride though
In outwitting her at every turn
As in her efforts of destruction
She was halfhearted too.
She saw and loved
The defiance that was you
The faith the trust
The God that was you

She denied the comfort of gloating
On how rules and restrictions
Fracture your spirit.
She lamented instead
At her lost chance
To rise up from that free, unrestricted space
She’d fallen into
Looking at you she desired
To experience the chains once more
To cry and be scolded
To be cared for by her God.
Aye she looked at you
Envied you and loved you
For in you was her forbidden pleasure
In you her greatest pain.

She craved to rise, yes
But the chances were greater
Of you being pulled down
Into her unlimited, unwanted world
Which by her promise you’d enjoy, lust for
But curse her too, for destroying
What was essentially you.
For she knew that
Though there was no better good
Than reformed evil
There was nothing more evil
Than disgraced goodness.

Last night she came to your bedside
To take away and destroy
All that you held holy and dear
She sat beside you,
Smoothed her fingers through your hair
As you slept on
Unaware as an infant to
The tempest you’d raised in her
Sat there, and remembered she did
Every stubborn pout, each negation
And all the struggle
You waged against her and her ways.

At a point in time she bend down
And kissed your mouth, half open in sleep
The only thing you’d willingly give her
In your unconscious slumber.
A lingering look, and she tiptoed
Out of your space and out of your life.

Yes, she walked awat the moment she accepted
It was the unadulterated gold she lusted for
Accepted, it was the child in you she loved
Accepted that she stood to lose more
In making a man of you
She walked away.

And though I hoped, dreamed
And laugh at the irony if you may
I prayed.
To wake up beside you, in the morning
Held in the grasping, desperate clutches
Of a man who had discovered Passion
Illicit and insatiable
Know that, i settled instead
For a few distant, periodic looks
At the smug, secure happiness
Of untarnished, though slightly arrogant innocence

So the next time you hear of the Devil
Do give her some due
After all,I did decide to spare you.