The Consequences of Idleness

Thanks to Josie of ‘Two Shoes Tuesday’ who hosts this writing meme. Her prompts this week are ‘Distraction’ or ‘Tears’. Participants may choose one or other or both of the prompt words.

I didn’t know where I was going with this one – and as you can see, I’m not convinced I ever found out . . .

        The Consequences of Idleness

I was drowsy with inaction -

Neither seeking a reaction

Nor requesting satisfaction,

I admitted an attraction

Which provided stupefaction

Though I wanted no transaction –

It was simply a distraction.

I intended no infraction

Or similar abstraction

From another’s tender traction.

BUT it led to jeers and tears

From relatives and peers

Who asserted their worst fears,

Repeated through the years,

Had reached their outraged ears.

I took the quickest action

To calm the angry faction

And wrote a stiff retraction

To abandon a protraction –

My character’s contraction

Caused me dissatisfaction

And all because inaction

Had allowed me a distraction.