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Am I Evil?

A Poem

By Thabo MagavaPublished 8 years ago 2 min read

Am I evil for promoting the extinction of humanity?

Even though it’s to save my family from the issues of poverty

Am I evil for eliminating another human?

Even though it’s to save another soul to stay human

Gathering my thoughts I play the aspects of all evil

From a man, to a woman, to a child and then the people

I feel like this cycle of despair becomes more stagnant

Even though we evolve, but do the unfortunate even state that

Whose an angel or a demon, was I made in the image of God

But given the mentality of the Devil, that equation doesn’t seem to be odd

Because I agree with my alter ego, he is the unfortunate

Cast out of the world to maintain the relevance of all the fortunate

Am I evil for thinking the Devil had an instinct of any soul?

Because we all want change, but the majority always hold the hope

Am I evil for stating people are so attached to religion?

Even though religion leads to wars that affected people’s decision

Am I evil for forgiving the man that killed my loved ones?

Because I don’t see why I have to cry for someone who’s then a dead one

I might be heartless, but I heard that’s what makes me stronger

Though if you have a heart, your mind becomes broader

Tell me why, why do people think death possesses good and evil

Didn’t God state it’s evil but he brought a plague on the Egyptian People?

Just because they didn’t follow his beliefs, God what’s the cure

Maybe humans were never meant to travel to find a heart that is pure

Sometimes I think we’re all demons finding a way to prove ourselves

Sometimes I think there were no angels that we’re left to help ourselves

Am I evil for thinking that, maybe you erased our memories

Because it was the only way to get people to hear your mind’s melody

Am I evil for confronting the Devil to seek success?

Even though I live on a meal, anointed by the unfortunate’s regrets

So many people choose darkness because there are limited reasons

To follow the light, you must see this as our hearts change like the seasons

It’s our fault, God I’m sorry, we influenced these events

Diseases profits the doctors, conflict profits the soldiers’ presence

Then people blame you, while it’s the population’s fault

The poor can’t see the bigger picture while their trapped in depression’s box

Am I evil for ending humanity in a second?

Just for people to rest in peace because the next generation will suffer, will you accept it?

Or so the population will stop living under the pressure of work

Since we all aim to rest, I’m just granting the necessities’ perks

Tell me why, why do there have to be two outcomes in an event

Though I have come across a path that brought a third outcome’s essence

I’m still liquidizing its essence, maybe it’s the solution

To get drunk off its ingredients, leading to the threshold’s conclusion

Am I evil for idolizing my wife to be?

Or my father that found success, because they are the tangible assets I need

Though if I never knew you I wonder where I would be

Maybe longing for your Holy water to drown all my evil deeds

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