Revenge

The code of vengeance has always existed

Since the days of yore it has been twisted

An eye for an eye is what they ask and desire

That has often pushed us to a quagmire.

He says he won’t take her betrayal lying down

Confused and hurting he calls me from midtown

Flattered I wonder does he seek out my sagacity

I remember then I have experienced the same unreality.

I never really wanted to be that guy

Whose suffering people find to identify

An example to his suffering fellowmen

Living his pain through others again.

I know you want to inflict the same strife

Rip through her world with a surgical knife

It is true that two wrongs don’t make a right

Who dares not stir by day must walk by night. 

You rave and rant about the injustice of life

And seek to avenge it with clandestine crime

Seeking others and finding lust to scavenge

Just remember that living well is the best revenge

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All the best laid plans can go awry and thus I find myself with a big gap between the posts.  Finally it is 'R' for 'Revenge.  Which leaves me to write multiple posts in a day.
By the way I snuck in a random line by the Bard in the poem ;-)

-Who dares not stir by day must walk by night. 

(King John: Act I, scene I:)

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