Mind Fields: Evil
Posted: August 29, 2025 Filed under: Mind Fields, Poetry | Tags: Arthur Rosch, Mind Fields, Poetry, Writing to be Read 2 CommentsEvil
is the movement of pain
from one place to another.
Evil has a source, a river of fire
rising from Hell. Evil
dwells in the Land of Bad Intentions,
where power is never shared.
Who makes the pain?
How does suffering dive off the board
of one person’s mind
and land
in a pool of fear in someone else’s?
Should I be surprised to find evil
right here, inside myself? Hardly. I know what evil I carry.
I won’t surrender any more
to the cruel aspect of my mind. I can think in polarities,
evil is “this”, good is “that”. I get exhausted with polarities.
Can Evil simply Be? There is no countervailing impulse, no good deed to excuse the causing of pain.
The goal of evil is undeserved suffering. That suffering
is everywhere. The ones who cause it
are also everywhere.
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An excellent poem, Art. Some things just are and evil is one of them 🖤🤍
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the original text of this poem was botched. Nonetheless I got a lot of comments. I would urge readers to try it again. It wouldn’t have made total sense without the omitted lines. Thank you all!
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