In a flash, I acted, I did it!
No taking back, though yearning amends to make.
Longing with the whole heart and might to rectify.
Break, demoralize, diminish, shame.
This is the result, not the original intent.
The consequence of thoughtless, rash gesture.
Spilled milk, one cannot gather.
Why lament and cry?
The deed I have done, make amends now I must.
Which road to take, to repair?
Why regret without anything doing?
For not all done, is of reproach.
Only a particular thoughtless deed.
Owing not to the essence of the action, rather to the motive behind what one did.
‘Twas a hand raised in angry frustration.
Landing fast and hard, on child’s bewildered face.
The child in mischief found, deserved not,
Weighty punishment, which on him, befell.