He Has Paid The Price Poem by Francis Duggan

The area around his right eye it looks rather swollen and red
Such damage one does not get on leaving their bed
His eye by the swelling it has been shut tight
And he does look indeed quite a horrible sight.

Involved in another brawl at his Local last night
But he quickly went down from a left and a right
Flattened on the floor of his Local bar
To find one better than him he did not travel far.

A previous bar brawl victory had gone to his head
But there's always one better and it ought to be said
That he got his come uppance from one shorter than he
And for the humbled bully not much sympathy.

It just took two hard punches just that and nothing more
And he ended up on his back on the floor
He picked a fight with the wrong man one he did not know
The fellow much smaller won by the k o.

Such things seldom happen to those who are nice
And for his rowdy behaviour he has paid the price
And since on our behaviour we all have a choice
The next time before brawling he will think twice.