The Honest Spectator Poem by RIC BASTASA

you feel cheated
you will be sad for quite a time
but just like anything else
that sadness won't last

there is this urge
to cheat another
as a way of getting even

but you are different
you do not make yourself just like the rest of them

you stay there
honest to yourself
no longer sad

now gifted with wisdom
you think you understand

in the silence of that wisdom
you rise above this world divided
between those that cheat
and those who were cheated