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# Good Deeds
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- Published: 2024-04-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I'm realizing as I've gotten older that perfectly good deeds do go unpunished Is this because they're cleverer or bolder or possibly those punishing have vanished?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I'm realizing as I've gotten older  
that perfectly good deeds do go unpunished  
Is this because they're cleverer or bolder  
or possibly those punishing have vanished?

No, there is surely evidence galore  
that some will get their punishment in full,  
but nonetheless come back and ask for more,  
and thereby giving credence to the rule.

There is, perhaps, a simpler explanation:  
though the cliché makes for a great excuse,  
our natural, instinctive inclination  
is do not get involved, since what's the use,

and then confess you'd do something about it  
but then you would get punished, do not doubt it.