So should I do…what needs to be done!: A poem 

(To the treacherous creeps – Anthony Albanese and Prakash Saint Paul)

You know I wrote a poem in metaphor 

at a seemingly hostile store 

I know everything I do causes an uproar,  

especially to those people stealthily and slyly in the know 

Do you think I am afraid of them watching me? 

Do they think I’m prepared for a no-show in the melee? 

If they can believe that they can strait-jacket me 

I’d say to them, freedom is a spirit, not a lock without a key 

And do you think this treachery and crime 

just started in this lifetime (so should I fear?) 

Must I do the penance for the villains’ sins, 

Because they don’t want to atone for their wickedness and, shamelessly, pursue their wins 

I have borne the dusts and gusts of eternity 

to set many a deserving free 

And if you think so should not be 

I’ll curse you as criminal for all eternity!