When does it become one's duty, <br />To be held accountable for their own actions? <br />When does that border between, <br />Allowing one to locate excuses... <br />Separates that from one's denying, <br />Of making habitual mistakes... <br />To find fault to place blame on others, <br />With a granting of an escape. <br /> <br />When does it become one's duty, <br />To be held accountable for their own actions? <br />When does that border between, <br />Allowing one to locate excuses... <br />Separates that from one's denying, <br />Of making habitual mistakes. <br /> <br />And when will people awaken, <br />To discover their dishonesty... <br />Offers their children, <br />No respect or identity. <br />Or a dignity they pride for the rest of their lives. <br />What will it take... <br />For those with pretentions to have them erased? <br />More hiding places? <br />Or the appearance of guilty looks, <br />Adorning their pitiful faces?<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-granting-of-an-escape/
