What You Ripple You Receive

You may never know the pain of that you cause and how it feels

Ignorance for your glasses; a glowing self-centeredness is your life

For so long you've been floating through the world, paying no recompense

That evil you wrought on the world at someone else's expense

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Heartlessness did abound from such a young age

Nothing about your soul unsullied by the dark doers you encountered

Then you forgot about your actions and their effects

Never being there to deal with your many painful wrecks

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It was never going to be their fault you do the things you do

That unconscious need to bring about such pain and suffering

To be half in and half out for so long leaves you ignorant of what's true

Good intentions paving a road to hell meant for two

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Along the road to hell, none of us ever escaped

You're the giant boulder thrust in the way of futures ruined

From one moment in time the effects still spill outward

If only that instant could be stopped with a simple word

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You never recognized the evils you cursed two worlds with

One thing held common no matter how hard they tried to forgive

The ripples never stop until their maker does things right

Your rippling effect upon their lives continues into one's dying light

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When we act, we should never be so careless that we throw things around

And remember it's not today's effects that we'll see or feel

Think not only of what we see, but stay true to what we know is ours

And let not our ripples grow to waves that our life it sours

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If you throw the rocks into the sea of despair

Be not surprised when you look out and see the crashing waves there

For the ripples you've created are bouncing around those cries

And like all others, nobody escapes their effects until someone dies