The two wolves

I wrote this over the long weekend :-)
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The two of them walked hand in hand,
The old man and the little boy,
Leaving their footprints in the beach sand,
The kid jumping over the waves with joy

They found a bench after a long walk,
Right under the shade of a palm tree,
They sat down on it and began to talk,
And the old man turned and said to me.

There are two wolves within my heart,
Two wolves big and strong,
And they tear each other apart,
They have been fighting for so long.

One embodies good, makes me turn away from sin,
The other embodies evil,destruction and greed,
Then I asked him, "So which one will win",
And he replied, "The one that I feed".

---Prem

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Something else which gave me this thought was this mail:

This is from one of the lectures by Chandrashekhara Bharati, who
was the Jagadgaru of Sringeri Sharada Peetham. The saying goes
with the four yugas :

In Krutha Yuga, good and evil lived in separate worlds.

In Treta Yuga, they lived in separate geographical regions,
but same world.

In Dwapara Yuga, they lived in separate bodies, but in
the same family, same region, same world.

In Kali Yuga, they live inside the same body. This is why
victory over evil must come within oneself. It cannot happen
through an incarnation of god.