Morality

The evil
that you so deeply fear
cannot be hidden from
It is no faceless thing
to be avoided
 
It lies
behind your child's eyes
It grows
in your neighbor's smile
It crawls
from your lover's body heat
It moves,
multiplies in the silence
 
And no matter how
fast you run
hard you pray
you can never
never escape
because this evil
this vile, obscene
putrid thing

lives
deep
inside you
feeding on your thought
on your actions
and on every single
violent dream.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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February 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM
I believe you have misspelled the title to your poem. Should the title really be "morality" or "mortality"? This work delivers some decent descriptiveness despite needing a little polishing.
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