The doctrine of personal responsibility
is easier to state
than to live up to.
Confronted with our transgressions, most of us
deny these like Peter, plead extenuation,
or pray to a God we otherwise don't remember.
Others simply say: it was written.
Refusing to add anything to mea culpa,
a few mad ones
arrogantly reach for fatal perfection.
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