Don’t follow the crowd;
Do what you believe is right;
That is what you are always told.
Yet
no one does it.
I sure didn’t.
I did what
my friends
no
what my peers thought
was good.
They convinced me they were right;
And I fell for every word they said;
Fell right into the palm of their hands;
I was molded into their desires
instead of mine.
I was young;
Tricked;
Fooled.
I’m not saying my actions are excused because of those things;
But
it’s just easier
to not take full blame
even when you know you deserve it.
But now
I know differently.
I know about right and wrong;
Light and dark;
Good and evil.
They had told me it didn’t exist;
They said that there was no good or evil;
They said that there was no right or wrong;
They said that there was only power
and those too weak to seek it.
I didn’t want to be one of those people.
So I did it.
I joined him.
Whether I like it or not
I did it then
so I have to pay for it now.