Karma is a tale breaker in a placid room
An umbrella that frolics beneath the moon
No footsteps, no echo, but she still is ever – present
Eupneic, her warnings behind your receivers
She ain’t tumultuous, but she is surgical clean
Cutting through juncture you thought you unseen
Like smoke from a fire you tried to omit
She dawdles in silence, collecting your obligations
Every choice after puerility dissipates
Carves out a path that the tomorrow satisfies
No reset key, no do-over
What you plant in the dark, the dawn will wake
You might dress in your best bib & tucker
Smile like peace lives in your chest
But Karma don’t care for the veil you wear –
She reads the heart like open air
She is not vengeance but mirrored fate
A scale that balances love & hate
And when the weight of your past falls due
She don’t call ahead – she just strolls through
You’ll be sipping glee, tossing victories
Thinking your vigor out ran your sins….
Then she will show up with her collected grace
And the simper will conceal on your perfect face
For every being that you bruised & bent
For every dollar, lies or time squandered –
She multiples pain like seeds in spring
Until it flourishes everything
You won’t even know it’s her at first -
Just rotten luck, a string of worse
But when your child cries, “ Why is love so cruel?”
You’ll hear the reverberation of the pain you’ve seen
You’ll turn blind eye, won’t tell them why
But deep in your psyche, you’ll feel the sigh
It’s the price of peace when it’s brought with war,
It’s the locked-up veracity behind your door
Meanwhile, the ones you left in the lurch
Rebuilt their lives with grit & trust
They found their light, they found their serenity
While your umbrella is on lease, with no release
Funny thing, how Karma whirls
Returns the loss, reclaimed the wins
She don’t forget, she don’t forgive –
She simply gives what you chose to give
Now I will walk with lighter steps
Pay my obligations with live, not regrets
I need no throne, no crown, no fame –
Just good energy in Karma’s epithet