And Ivan says,

It is easy to claim, harder to practice.
It is easy to love thy neighbor as thyself.
It is harder to love he who rests his head next door.

And Ivan says, "I think that if the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

And Ivan says, 

God created man with Euclidean geometry, 

created man with limitations, rationality, 

as parallel lines that can only clutch divine in infinity, 

in the non-existence of the mind. 

And I wonder, 

if man created the devil the way God created man, 

mathematically, 

with science, 

with an exactness permeating atoms above air, 

Did man add its wretchedness into the reaction to act as a catalyst, 

And is this the conclusion, 

the explanation for the beast hidden under molecules of skin, 

stomach pumping for pleasure, 

for evil, for the release of dopamine under the scent of iron, 

And is this biology holy?

And is this biology the conclusion for oppression,

for murder, for torture without meaning?

Because then I demand a conclusion 

for why the arithmetic in human nature is flawed. 

You cannot create rain and wish the world dry, 

you cannot create sin and wish the world good.