Temptations

Author’s Note: The last chapter of Jekyll and Hyde was a lot of information to take in. While explaining what happened to the warmth of Jekyll that was extinguished by the character of Hyde, the author made sure to keep repeating the temptations of evil that was tickling the edges of Jekyll’s sanity. We all have temptations in our lives that always seem to take over our actions. Whether it is the small temptation to cheat on a math test, just to get one specific answer, or a large temptation to commit murder, we all go through it. We all don’t want to be tempted by the evil or even good, but sometimes, it seems it’s just too hard not to give in.

We don’t want to be tempted

But we just can’t help but give in.

We don’t want to smile

But we give into the laughter

We don’t want to smell it

But we lift the lid to the milk carton anyways

We don’t want to taste it

But we dip our finger into the strange liquid

We don’t want to look

But we just can’t help it

We don’t want to know

But we just can’t help but to question

We don’t want to hurt her feelings

But we can’t help but utter just that one judgmental comment

We don’t want to hit him

But we just can’t help it when he gives us that taunting smirk

We don’t want to cry

But we give into that little tickle under our noses

We don’t want to kiss him in front of your parents

But we just can’t help it

We don’t want the side effects,

But we just want to see what one intake of smoke would feel like

We don’t want to lie,

But the truth always seems to hurt too much to bring to the surface

We don’t want to be tempted

But we just can’t help but give in.