Before You Seek Poem by Randy McClave

Before you seek revenge
Before one hair you seek to singe,
And before on that journey you embark
Hark.

Before you seek to battle
Before someone's being you begin to rattle,
And before you go to vindicate
Wait.

Before you seek a reprisal
After getting an earful or an eyeful,
Before it drives you to the brink
Think.

Before you seek your vengeance
Before you lay out their sentence,
And before you slay
Pray.

Before you seek retribution
Believing that is the only way and solution,
Before your temper and your rants and raves
Dig two graves.

Randy L. McClave