Obey Nature

I don't obey my moral compass,
I obey nature,
For I know, in the end,
I'm only a creature.

I adore your morals and respect your ethics,
Lovely they are,
Comfy ideas like a sleepy dream,
Lazy fantasies of an ideal world:
Perfect like a math equation,
Elegent and irrelevant.

If you want to force yourself to be good
You already are good, of course.
Fools make rules and punishments for themselves:
Trust the goodness within you.
Let yourself live according to your good nature.

The only way for me to become good
Was to stop trying:
To become the kind psychopath within myself.
To lie when it's expedient
(It never is),
To hurt people whenever I want to
(I rarely do),
And to hate whomever is worth hating
(Nobody).

Written September 2021