Life’s Circle

The world sits on a circle friend

And as you know such has no end

And in one circuit all is bound

And what goes around will come around.

An unjust act you did today

Will come again someday your way.

Just when the act departs the thought

The same returns to pierce the heart.

Your conscience friend, may not be bothered

By unkindness meted out to others,

But one day while you are still alive

The same will in your sphere arrive.

The wickedness you have done or did

Becomes the steam beneath the lid

And you are bound to face the heat

In a moment when you can’t retreat.

The traps you set and plots designed

To overthrow and undermine

Shall entrap you when you least expect

And somehow cause you to reflect.

The nasty little games you play

To put your fellows in disarray

Shall in full force return to haunt

And terrorize and lash and taunt.

The strife you set in motion friend

Will not by your design just end

But somewhere on the circle of time

It returns and thence its author binds.

Every bad thing that you do

And every vice that you pursue

Will return to you someday your pound

At some point when it comes around.

Your cruel actions may cause tears

And subject many to despair

But that mean deed that you have done

Will confront you somewhere along the run.

The mercy that you never show

To that errant thoughtless folk or foe

Will when you search for it someday

From your presence run away.

The troubles that you made for others

Be it a sister or a brother

Will at some point on the circuit friend

Come ‘round and settle at your end.

If ever you think that it suits you

To lie on others and leave them “blue”

Your hour of sadness too will come

And like your victim make you glum.

Whatever it is you choose to do

Remember it will end with you

For such a thing will turn and turn…

Until its likeness you discern.

So friend, be careful how you act

For whatever substance such may lack

Will hence affect not just another

But will also come to be your bother.

So now my friend, do what is good

The things that inspire brotherhood

And you will never ever rue

The good things that you say and do.

As the course of life you daily run

Do know for sure your day will come

When the evil that you did with pleasure

Will return to you in fullest measure.