Poem 28 Consequences
Channel: Bunny Warren
Date: 29/05/2023

A poem of frustration! I was at a point where so much was forgiven by so many to all... where are the consequences for our own actions? Do all have excuses for lapses and does that just increase the number of moralities alibis? 

Oooh, that might might make me sound self-righteous... But then I possibly am, was, at this moment in time? I never said I was perfect... just close:-)

28. Consequences – 11.10.20

Consequences have gone
Just fallen away
It’s never your fault
So do what you may

To hide from your actions
Or worse just deny
That all that you’ve done
Has just gone awry

All could find some…
Excuses for actions
We blame a bad childhood
Or other distractions

You decide your own actions
Some right and some wrong
But to believe your decisions
Might not hurt, is just dumb

Don’t try and deny
Your steps might do harm
To others whose lives
Fall under your smarm

If you wound or do thieve
There should be a range
Of actions for others 
To take to avenge

So society requires
That law has a bite
To allow the offended
Their day in the light

If actions not punished
Becomes a reply
What problems exist
Will just become lies   Or... Will just multiply?

The punishment’s right
For a citizen’s flaws
Must show a cost paid
For breaking our laws

People must see
That actions have costs
Deterrents respected
Or freedom is lost

Crime and the law
Must be set in good faith
As much a deterrent 
As punishment’s path

At the end of the day
We must all realise
Our actions have consequences
Let’s hope no one dies!

By Andrew (Bunny) Warren

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