<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A myth about the origin of evil</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And satan said: <br>‘Let there be a lie! ’<br>And there was a lie.<br>It hid in the stones<br>Sliding from above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And satan said: <br>‘Let there be hypocrisy! ’<br>And there was hypocrisy.<br>It hid in the words<br>Waiting to speak up.<br>It covered itself with cobwebs<br>Spiders to feed.<br>It hid itself from itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And satan said: <br>‘Let there be poison! ’<br>And there was poison.<br>The devils waving their swords<br>Spilled it from a stormy breath.<br>It layered on the earth<br>To run with its currents.<br>It hid within the blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And satan said: <br>‘Let there be hatred! ’<br>And there was hatred.<br>It spilled all around<br>Like blood that cannot clot.<br>It walked in tigers’ paws<br>And hid itself in the end<br>Under the cold mossy north.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And satan said: <br>‘Let there be a human! ’<br>And there was a human.<br>He hid in the hypocrisy and lie<br>The poison of hatred fed him like milk.<br>A pirate wrapped in his sails.<br>And there was a human<br>In beasts he hid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And satan said: <br>‘Let him think I am not! ’<br>But it was not the way he said.<br>There was a lie in the beginning of his word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written in 1989 reconstructed in 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">©Miroslava Odalovic</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Miroslava+Odalovic">Miroslava Odalovic</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461656" data-title="A myth about the origin of evil de Miroslava Odalovic" data-description="And satan said: ‘Let there be a lie! ’ And there was a lie. It hid in the stones Sliding from above. And satan said: ‘Let there be hypocrisy! ’ And there was hypocrisy. It hid in the words Waiting to speak up. It covered itself with cob..."></div> </div> </div>

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