The human grime, the world's leftovers
The shunned, the dirty
Cast-outs of society,
Having foregone the mandates of the world
Created their own ruin.
There they rot, so vile, and
So forlorn. Forgetting why
They were sent to the pit -
The consequences of flouting law,
A lifetime of hellish despair.
To be cleansed is impossible,
The world decreed.
Once shunned, always scorned.
Decision made, laws broken,
Unredeemable outcome.
Then Purity reaches out its hand
Touching those that reach up
From the bog of human grime.
A vileness so putrid,
Purity should flee.
Yet Purity, deigning to be compromised,
Reaches to grasp the hands
Of the dregs of society,
Removing them from the pit.
And Purity chooses to reclaim
What the world has disowned.
Author notes
This is option #1, the significance of cause and effect, with a focus on decisions and consequences.
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