(based on Romans 7:21-25)

I am two men.

Within this house of clay,
I live and strive
against Myself.
That which I hate,
That which I love,
Is likewise Me.
Division of two worlds—
Two realms;
A rotten corpse of death—
An Adam, Eden-new—
The one is Life,
The other Death.
Did ever Love and Hate,
Or Dark and Light
Exist within one frame?
Yet here am I.
I am a dead man walking.
I am Alive.
When shall I be just One?
O Who will rid me
Of this corpse?

When He who holds the sundered realms
Of Heav’n and Hell
Exults upon the heights, Humanity within His grasp—
His sword, blood-red,
Shall cleave my soul from Death.

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