NaPoWriMo #2: The Devious Amanojaku

For day 2, the prompt is to write a poem based on a non-Greco-Roman myth. Here goes:

The Devious Amanojaku 
No one can hear
these malevolent
voices
and see the glint of its
spiteful eyes
if we let it conquer
our fickle heart.

It is fed on our greed,
our selfishness,
our destruction.
Some of us blame it
for our nefariousness,
condemn it
for our vile actions
without realizing
we let it become
our beating heart.
-Nuruljannah-

P.S. Amanojaku is "a demon-like creature in Japanese folklore. It is usually depicted as a kind of small oni, and is thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires and thus instigate him into perpetrating wicked deeds" (Wikipedia).