<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Original Sin<br><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Not sex, not disobedience but<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Deceit. The woman made me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Do it or, worse, self-deceit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Believing the woman made me do it. <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We believe the lies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">we tell to ourselves,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Tales to absolve or explain<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">But never own the moves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We make to place ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">In positions of invulnerability.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We move across the board, fighting<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">A war we inherited. A fight<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">That tells us there is only<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Room for one at the end, at the top.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">We believe ignorance <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Is rewarded with absolution. <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">How hard, we find, to ask<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">How does deceit benefit me?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Hurt another?</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">How hard to own our nature<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">as fearful, small animals<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">clawless, but cunning.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">How hard to see that</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font>achieving the sought-after prize</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font>can only begin with seeing ourselves </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font>not the image, become genuine</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font>Not the polished person</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font>that deceit and ego wish us to be. </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"> </div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Rebecca del Rio</font></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>