Oops! Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

What do you mean...
What I send out
Will be returned to me?
But I've only done
What my ancestors before me have shown!
You mean to tell me I will be paid back
For what to me was unknown?
Hey...
That may take thousands of years?
Oops!
I can't even hide from what others did?
Even though my intentions,
Were to ensure a great life I alone would live?

'Well...
I wish I could provide you with some oomph to that oops,
But it seems we've been running low on that flavor of late! '