Inspite Of Warnings Against It Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Bored with your life?
And feel the best way to overcome,
The urge to strike with the biting done to someone...
Is to create conflict?
Inspite of warnings against it!
Then you spot a prey who appears to be innocent.
At least it appears that way from a distance.

How precious do you regard the living of your life?
And just how fast can you run from someone,
You have randomly picked...
Who is in between decisions to walk away or seek revenge.
And you came along to help them finally decide what to do.

How many hiding places can you find from which to choose?
How many times have you heard yourself say...
'But they appeared to be so innocent.
Why couldn't I just walk away?
God why am I so stupid? '

~Do you wish your answer literally?
Or is that just a figure of speech? ~

'How did you know I was here hiding? '

~People like you are all over the place.
Believing they can start something.
To then run and hide.~

'What are you going to do to me? '

~Let's see.
How about ten years of unrelenting agonizing?
But I will let you know,
When and if I become satisfied with that arrangement.~

'I didn't mean to pick on you.
I really didn't.'

~It stopped being about you ten seconds ago.
This...
And what you have committed to doing,
Is about me.
Wouldn't you agree? ~