It's called Karma

I wrote this 6 years ago, little did I know ? In Reading this year, four deaths, it is only 18.02.2021 so very heart breaking. Tragic.

It’s called Karma

 

Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. What goes around comes around.

  My Dads voice going round in my head " it’s called Karma Son” he said.

 All the time in the world to sit and think, in this cell, about the boy I stabbed.

 The nice guy, the grade A student, gone from this earth. 

His mothers tears as she remembers his birth.

 All she has now is a black hole, gaping open like the wound below his chest,

 The pain inside so deep like a never ending ache.

 That boys blood will always be on my hands,

Imprinted, ingrained, into my very skin.

 A reminder of what I took from him.

  He will always be on my back, for the rest of my life, an extra shadow following me through life.  Sitting in this cell now I ask myself why? Drugged fuelled madness took Mr. Niceguy.

 What and idiot I am! And I thought I was such a hard man.

” What goes around comes around comes around” my Dad used to say. 

What will be my penance to pay?

 I could be simply crossing the road one day and my life snuffed out like a candle,

Struggling to reignite, but then my body looses the fight.

 That girl of mine, I’ve left behind if she sticks by me, we will have kids eventually.

 I’ll teach them right! Not teach them that it’s big or clever to play with knives.

 That’s if I get the chance.  I picture my Dad looking down at me,

 “What goes around comes around its called Karma you see”

 But now, what’s done is done.

 As much as I like to give that boy back, I can’t you see, and no it wasn’t the crack, it was me.  Who knows what destiny holds for me, we shall have to wait and see.....

 

Reviews

[Passion]

Very nice play of words. You kept my attention the whole way through. You have captured how we all await karma to repay us for the choices we've made, for what follows us around just waiting for the moment when we least expect it.

"He will always be on my back, for the rest of my life, an extra shadow following me through life."
Very well written.

[Ink Angel]

Any help with this one appreciated grammar and so on.......

[just is]

Very powerful write, quite enjoyable to read : )

[Diwakar - "The Warrior ..]

Really Powerful and Awesome :-)

[Suditi]

Wow.
This is such a powerful write.
So intense.
It is thought provoking.
The theme, the content, the end, the flow, everything is so perfect about it
Thank you for sharing this with us.

[Mary]

powerful words, so visual and heart wrenching

[$êlvån]

Gr8 one...i'm moved..awesome starting

[Kes]

Ouch. I really like this. Especially the bit at the end 'it wasn't the crack, it was me'. I think all drugs do is elevate how you already feel.
I hope killers feel this way. I know it's bad. I do though.
Fantastic write.
K