Oh, it's you again

Curiosity my old foe
How quickly you defeat me
Though I try, I cannot fight
You are like a beau
You know what makes me me
And entices wrong from right

Why can I not defeat you
I only want to know
What can I ever do
to escape this mental limbo

I cannot win, that is certain
So I'll tame you ere I'm bitten

And so did Babylon

"I judge not," the lady said,
as she craned her neck, and lifted her head.
"So the child sinned, many do.
It doesn't mean her soul is black through and through."
Blood rushed to the woman's face,
as her voice grew in strength, her words pace.
"It's not right to punish so for her wrongs,
it's her voice, her music, her songs!
It's not right, I say! That she pay the consequences
for her life is her own. She shouldn't need fences!
Why should her past deeds haunt her life?
Why should her poisoned well still cause her strife?
No I judge not. I judge not at all."
And so did Babylon self-righteously fall

Contract

You know the price, you know the cost.
The mirror ’s broken, the innocence lost,
By blood or sweat, but by your hand.
You wrote your name, you made the brand.
The bill has come, the check is due.
How it all ends? That was up to you.