POEM - Of course I'll hurt you

after prudence brooks

Of course I’ll hurt you,
because you don’t need vengeance
to embody the Furies themselves:

some behaviours simply merit
an appropriately disproportionate
response.

There is no crevasse deep enough
no hole for you to hide
from consequences.
Your comeuppance has come due
as surely and predictably
as your rent.

after all, inaction is the greatest form
of self-violence.
I dare you not to blink
dare you not to flee
at the very thought of my approach
daring you to succumb
or not
to the madness
in anxious anticipation of what happens next.

ready or not, here I come.