January Homework - The Price to Pay
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:05 pm
The Price to Pay
Ah, see how the mighty have fallen!
Now facing a bottomless void
of darkness and deeds come to haunt them
with memories of schemes they employed.
Return of their honour unlikely,
for no one will never forget
their hunger for power and riches,
nor grief and disgust they beget.
They took what they could from their people,
while driving in bulletproof cars,
absorbed in their drugs, sex and liquor,
while fronting at myriad bars.
They thought that the world was their oyster,
imagined themselves splendid stars,
with exploits related in poems
and songs played on golden guitars.
Yet not due to blind veneration—
for most are awake to the facts,
despising all prominent people
who hedge and make sinister pacts.
Comeuppance is not always certain,
but when they’re found out in their lies
the wrath of the populace drowns them
in loathing too deep to disguise.
Integrity should be the motto
of all who would rise to the heights.
Immoral tall poppies should suffer,
their evil revealed under lights.
No matter their title or standing,
their following, fortune or fame,
the mighty who sink to corruption
must fall hard and suffer the shame.
© Catherine Lee, Jan 2023
Ah, see how the mighty have fallen!
Now facing a bottomless void
of darkness and deeds come to haunt them
with memories of schemes they employed.
Return of their honour unlikely,
for no one will never forget
their hunger for power and riches,
nor grief and disgust they beget.
They took what they could from their people,
while driving in bulletproof cars,
absorbed in their drugs, sex and liquor,
while fronting at myriad bars.
They thought that the world was their oyster,
imagined themselves splendid stars,
with exploits related in poems
and songs played on golden guitars.
Yet not due to blind veneration—
for most are awake to the facts,
despising all prominent people
who hedge and make sinister pacts.
Comeuppance is not always certain,
but when they’re found out in their lies
the wrath of the populace drowns them
in loathing too deep to disguise.
Integrity should be the motto
of all who would rise to the heights.
Immoral tall poppies should suffer,
their evil revealed under lights.
No matter their title or standing,
their following, fortune or fame,
the mighty who sink to corruption
must fall hard and suffer the shame.
© Catherine Lee, Jan 2023