The darkness that has entangled your life- <br />By accident, by marriage, by unluckiness- <br />Don't repeat it, so that its poisons may seep <br />All your days, into other affairs, and other minds; <br />For poison acts the same on men and women, <br />On the innocent and the guilty. <br /> <br />So that this toxin may not claim more victims, <br />Treat it as a dirty secret, and never repeat it once <br />To any living soul; and thereby you may stopper the bottle, <br />Save the world from contagions effect- <br />And let the ones who introduced the evil <br />Suffer the full symptoms, and let it die within them, <br />And not within you or yours.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-darkness-72/
