MEET MY DEMON
i EET my demon; he is not expunged by threat or law, or your most moral tone; walks at my feet as shadow, but may rise by moon or morning mindlessly enlarged seen as myselt, while I, upon the stone struggle as shadow while his crimes surprise, You will not know me then, but may forgive assaults upon wives, daughters, and the code prohibitive of carnage, if you sense no truth behind the face these actions haveremember I’m possessed, and that the road may be my own against a moment hence. Nor is this mere excuse that I may shrug off guilt, responsibility, and escape Scot-free to further hurt: say what has done was not my doing; each wears this shape as big as that I introduce-each shares the hope
his acts of darkness are not all his own.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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144MEET MY DEMON New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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