I ran into my evil twin
And found it strange to see
How his black heart had no more sin
Than that which dwells in me!
MYHL
1/28/07
Copyright © 2007 Marc Y H Landeweer
Commentary: This work is both facetious and serious. It is facetious in that while I consider myself mildly evil, I think (or at least I hope) I've got a ways to go before an "evil" counterpart and I would actually have the same black-heartedness. This is a serious poem in that as humans we are thusly all born into sin. A man who sins every now and then is no less a sinner than a man who sins habitually. Conversely*, this also means that within us all is some goodness; no man is purely a sinner. We are all "simultaneously saints & sinners" (See the works of Luther for a more theologically grounded explaination)
(* Not meant as a formal logic argument...for those math or philosophy nerds out there)
