When You Wrong A Person Poem by RIC BASTASA

when you wrong a person
and you do not think of any reparation
when you think that you are happier
in your situation

beware
for at the end
the furies come to take their revenge

beware
for the right hour comes
for that foolishness to come back
to your very own body

beware
do not laugh do not be overconfident
no one may come to take back what you have taken

but soon
your hands shall go against your commands
and your fingers shall soon begin their take on you

self-choked
you take your own death
through your own hands,
your tongue shall hang out
your eyes escaping from their sockets
looking at you
with all guilt

take note
it is the self that becomes your own enemy
and it is this self that at the end
takes you
away from yourself.