Crime and Punishment

I'm not attacking you, don't take me so personally,
think for the best and rather assess, realistically,
there is no 'sentence' although may feel like one,
you may endure and emerge when said and done.

What was in mind all those years ago, when Cain
murdered Abel, no one went to prison as far as we know,
rather, kept quiet, anything to preserve the status quo,
when you looked in the mirror, you might see a foe.

So Raskolnikov thought that everyone was a fool,
not much has changed, we think that something's not 'cool,'
we're told: 'That's obvious,' a little pokey bit of humility,
instead of gracious acknowledgement for ones ability.

Brothers Karamazov were the same as our crazy world today,
except maybe more genuine with what they had to say.