"Am I not a man with a soul, with a will?" I liked this line in particular. How philosophical.

"Safeguard like a miser." Oh, nice simile. :)

the devil made me do it...
yeah
that make a lot of sense

the repetition of conscience makes for a reverberating, echoing persistent tone which underlines the theme and message of the poem- skilfully done and I love the sound of the line that "we must safeguard like a miser his treasure horde".

i suspect the narrator to be a monk or a priest, a
little sanctimonious and priggish. he should shirk
his vestures of office for a while and, in mufti,
hang out among some real human beings.

This reminds me of last week when my dad kept turning the heat on every day, even though it wasn't needed because "it's so cold downstairs" and everyone else had to sneak around turning it off all the time like it was some sort of secret spy mission.
Seriously. He was really mad about it, as well.

C