POETIC JUSTICE-(Virtue over Vice) <br /> <br />Virtue over vice—who will pay the price <br />Ironic twists of fate are flawed if virtue does not equal reward <br />Logic needs to triumph—to beat and defeat <br />The tragedy of treachery that strives to cheat and repeat <br /> <br />Try to see outside myself and understand the eyes <br />To analyze, theorize, recognize and polarize <br />Excuse all the highs that terrorize <br />Unacknowledged trauma’s are like wounds that never heal <br />Never feel—on a constant wheel—a terrible price to pay for sin <br />Until at last the outside matches the justice <br />History written on the body—a canvas of poetry <br />In the end, reality, the price to pay would be too great <br />Too much at stake <br />Comfort zones obliterated, confusion reiterated <br />What then… the end? <br /> <br />Life seems slow to reach conclusion <br />To wait, turn back, to stop or go <br />To fly or dive when there is no restraint or self control <br /> <br /> Deceit makes it hard to separate the self <br />Seeking truth above the easy way out <br />To shout, express doubt, to dropout- - burnout <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Justice is tested through another’s eyes <br />Disguising their own lies as they spy and deny <br />The poetry of playing the same game <br />Camouflaged by another name—to shame blame and disclaim <br /> <br />Does virtue win the day? <br />Or vice have its say and inevitably stay <br />Does it triumph and receive reward? <br />Or is logic a masquerading fraud <br /> <br />The poetry in justice must ultimately distrust and adjust this <br />Lift the darkness <br />Make it painless, nameless and stainless <br />The punishment… its sword<br /><br />Kim van Breda<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poetic-justice-virtue-over-vice/
