Some people whip themselves into a hurry,
the smile abandoned for the serious frown.
They ask rough questions in a frenzied flurry,
and scourge us with the lashes of their fury---
getting ahead to keep someone else down.
For them, all is "for me, right now, right here."
But they will learn, soon, just how much to fear---
how ghastly hellfire is, how long, how slow.