What Lurks Within

What Lurks Within Were it once a bright and honest form Un-pestered by the flies now round it swarm The purity be gone, though be deceptions fault Un-blamed and yet desires could not halt Offered such a power which man can only dream And wore the coat, perfectly, seam to seam Doomed to haunt and carry out the deeds Unearth the weak and in them plant the seeds Ease out the good that lives in every heart Cause conscience and the senses fall apart And with each take, his strength to reinforce To change the destiny of human course In plain sight, amongst us to reside Familiar, has no need of us to hide Innocent his face to all appears His presence is not felt, till mind he sears The curious be tempted, least to take a peep That instant found new blood has he to creep He draws you there with his, and your own sin I beg, I beg, never dare, to see, what lurks within