Paying for Moral Crimes

Tripping past the boundaries...

God knows we’ve all experienced it.

No matter how sky high and spic-span clean

your morals may be, we all overstep boundaries.

 

You may have felt similar things before.

It’s like when you have cancer, but can’t

tell anyone. One part of you imagines

the sunshine bliss of not having the knowing,

while you wonder how much more hurt

they will be.

 

I would describe it kind of like that instant

the first time you ride a roller coaster,

right when you’re about to reach the top

of that first hill-click click click. Something

comes over you, you want to scream

like a little kid, beg them to turn it off and go back,

even though you know it’s too late.

 

-like pageant girls must feel the moment after giving

a horrid, dumb, or plain answer. It means crushing

defeat. If only they had just done/said the right thing,

the blow would have been lessened.

 

Today I committed a moral crime, though not

too serious or high. Yet feeling the nauseated

fear building ulcers in my stomach, G(you)IlT,

may be enough punishment alone to bear.

Author's Note

If you take the first letter, or word of each stanza it spells out how I spelled guilt at the end.

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

LOL Oh how we all know this so well I say experience is thew best teacher

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

We can certainly be our harshest critique... other often forgive us before we do ourselves... you certainly leave a lot to contemplate with this philosophical write.

[zendikar]

haha nice guilt i prefer spelling it gyilt though haha great poem nice job!