The sin

The world's most dangerous?
"Cruelty" said the abandoned child
"Murder" said the condemned with nowhere to hide
"Regret" said the old wise dame
"Hypocrisy" said the actor overdosed on fame
"Lies" said the scorned heart shriveled
"Laziness" said the son disowned
"All and none" I say
"Can be summed in a cliche"
"Hope
It drove you and you and you
As it does all but few
The hope of a better day
The hope of atonement, you pray
The hope of a few kind words, a loving caress
The jealousy a friend seldom expresses
He is cunning
You keep reaching and seldom winning
He gobbles the minutes and spits the hours
We throw away that which is ours
He delays the pain, suffering, sorrow
Delays yesterday's justice for tomorrow
Promising straws into golden threads
Leaving your dignity and faith in shreds
With deceit he mends the breach
His answers forever out of reach
His questions never fading
His reasons and wants always needing"
"And yet he lives
In the tiny eyes and the rosy lips
In the forgotten webs
And the cripple's steps
In the overturned rags
And the naive brags
He is past, as it blinks
And the future in its brink
He is in the bars the innocent clutches
He is the first rain in the drought's trenches
He is the red wheels for the burning house
He is the orange flame for the frozen mouse
He is the yellow beam struggling through the grey
He is the blue the fishermen pray
He is the new dad's indigo doll
Bought for the baby in the Fall
He is the violet stone he gives
To hear that word through her lips
Hope is a rainbow of emotions
Flecked with commotions and dimensions and devotions
Beat him
Hate him
Hide him
Disown him
But always come back to him
For he is the sin you must commit
For that infinitesimal chance at glory"