Paying The Consequences Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Acting...
That's all it is.
Not a fact of life,
One actually lives.

However...
One may think,
Misdeeds done to another...
Puts them under a brighter light.
One may think,
Words spoken untrue...
To purposely do,
Will not return on their backs to bite.
One may think,
Their negativity is disguised with lies...
To hide deception.
However...
Demons like this,
Can not run away after believing themselves clever.
Demons like this,
Will forever be paying the consequences.

One may think,
They can do to others and with their druthers...
What it is they wish to get away with.
One may think,
Delusion and fantasy will one day be reality.
And to continue betraying others,
Will be erased without a trace of facts to face.
One may think,
To do to someone with a doing done to do...
Leaves them not the one victimized,
But that's that true.
You see...
Demons like this,
Can not run away after believing themselves clever.
You see...
Demons like this,
Will forever pay the consequences.

Acting...
That's all it is.
Not a fact of life,
One actually lives.