When the mood seized me
I excused my indiscretions
without guilt or shame
as generosity --
Who am I kidding but me?
No shame, yet guilty of acts
exposed to the world,
this shameless fool lost his roots.
What right does he have
to tell others how to live?
My decision is
mine, and mine alone - Forget
all regret and grieve
the loss of integrity.
You are not alone; you are free!
How free are the passions, dear
to their slaves tonight!
Look at them squirm, suffering
needlessly, the truth
ignored, their desires hot.
Am I free to live?
Do I live to be free of
all my desires?
No, though I err as human,
this divine spark forgives me.
In all sense of forgiveness
from passions am I
freed, calmly detached, unbound --
Rising above shame,
liberation seizes me!
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