THE DARKNESS WITHIN

You look at me and see a face familiar -
Yet beneath the familiar lies the unknown,
The unshown.

Unknown by you and all the world
Unshown to you and all the world,
Known by me and me alone
And alone seen by me.

For when I look into myself
A blindness I wish would descend -
A blindness for the evil and envy within me,
A blindness for the injustice meted out by me.
A blindness for the charade put on,
A blindness for the lies thy eyes see.

And this verse made by my conscience,
It is the blindness I seek.