Dostoyevskian Voices

"You never free yourself

from anything you've ever done."

"Deadly sins
keep haunting your mind’s chambers,

and follow your whereabouts

everywhere."
"...Or simply linger with you
for too long,

like some heavy scents, 

controlling your breathing,

their creepy permanence

staring at you

from the inside

of a broken skyline
of bleak remorse

and undeserved lack of change,

turning all your dreams into nightmares...."

"Forget the bystanders and the passers-by

they are not here

to watch your innocence restored."

"Their only purpose is to serve

one useless lesson at the worst of times."

"Seizing your lost mildness,

preaching their blunders

in their too sinuous, self-obsessed  ways,

spoiling everything worthy of love

then faking the wailing and weeping of fallen angels

blaming the sun’s light’n’warmth

for their own hearts' blindness and cold

allowing the darkness

to cause such a shameful waste."

"This is but a part of our worldly punishment."