Payback
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
A boomerang.
Thrown in one direction.
Does not stay that way to remain.
A carousel to spin.
While those sit on it,
Begin to smile and happily grin.
Will begin to notice soon,
A returning they do.
To start over again.
Few who experience,
Moving through a revolving door.
A new view,
Not to have seen before.
The same applies to a payback.
Done to return as it does like that.
There are many who believe,
What they do to others done to receive.
Leaves them to go in one direction.
Left not to expect what comes next,
From a mistreating of a wrongful deed.
They did to another.
But not to expect the doing of it,
To return from somewhere else.
With that done to do not to know from who!
A payback pays back,
In ways no one can say...
They anticipated their misdeeds to do,
With open arms to welcome...
A returning back to them,
What had been done.
Yet...
Can not explain to anyone,
Why they stayed to keep looking...
In the wrong direction with expectation!
'You look terrible.
What's wrong?
Where have you been?'
'For whatever the reason,
I have been in bed sick for weeks!'
'Maybe it was something you ate to eat.
Or something you did,
To someone else you should not have done.'
'That makes no sense!'
'And people keep saying everyday,
How God works in mysterious ways.'
'God had nothing to do,
With my being sick.
And the aches and pains,
I've been suffering through.'
'And people are always heard to say,
God is everywhere.
Omni THIS and Omni THAT!
Yet refuse to accept,
What they do to others and themselves...
As if,
God is on vacation somewhere else.
And knows nothing about what they do.
Then to call themselves 'Christians'.
Loyal and faithful believers.'
'You always want to take things,
In a meaningless to make no sense direction.'
'I know.
I have been accused of offending,
Those who are faithful hypocrites.
And loyal to self deception.
To then hear them blame to claim,
Division, conflict, bigotry and racism...
Is a phenomenon brought about,
By the rise of ethnic diversity.
Destroying a quality of life.
They don't understand why but wish it ends!'
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Written on January 07, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on January 07, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,084 |
Words | 463 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 4, 11, 10, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 10, 2, 10 |
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