To Someone Who Missed the Point of "Crime and Punishment"

A fan of Dostoevsky ought to see
What Rodion Raskolnikov was shown:
It was precisely his autonomy,
His choosing to believe that he alone

Could redefine the right and wrong, that left
Him rudderless. That's why Raskolnikov
Thought he was authorized to put to death
Two helpless women. Thus he was cut off

From conscience and from wisdom, till he dreamed
Of how men just like him could wreck the world;
He had to yield himself to be redeemed,
Helped in this by a so-called fallen girl.

His trust in self trapped him inside a curse
Which only faith in Jesus could reverse.