Catching A Glimpse Of Evil, Revised For The Plague Times

From But Glimpse Learn To Recognize Evil, A Warning 

by a female Faust

i could be you just as easily — you 

could be me just as well —

we could be through with this misery

we could have done with this Hell

each one of us already knows how

& even though some of us don’t understand

the pretended ignorance shows

now — we can see all such traitors are damned

if ever you get like me beat down & frightened

overwhelmed, overcome by the fear

that maybe the world can’t be made right

in enough time — to avert what is near — 

& then — as if on cue — to save you from despondence

at long last — no, not even a bell

do remember please our correspondence

so this won’t be a 'so' i’d have been able to tell you

springing eternal, confused you confide

in sight seen as if near, more likely than far

in hearing but talk,  you — still —  take a side

you still don’t know how to tell  “ser” from “estar”

because those who refuse to be saved

have been Evil — well — all along — 

take a proud satisfaction depraved

in choosing senselessly yet — to do — wrong….

revised again for the plague times 3/2020