Does Karma Exist?

Some leaders are narcissistic and demand

Complete subservience, they need to have the upper hand

At all times- they can make or break

Their subordinates’ lives, everything is at stake

For the person who dares to challenge a leader like this in the face

The slightest demonstration of defiance has no place

In dealing with such a person, obsequiousness is the only way

One can out of sinister trouble stay

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Someone at the mercy of an incorrigible narcissist

Starts wondering if this is the only way to exist

By being a sycophant at the cost of self-respect

Constant belittlement one comes to expect

Wondering if and how the pattern would break

Not “poking the bear” for sanity’s sake

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When they look for advice someone is there to remind

That power is hierarchical, thus they find

That nothing ever changes, the prospect of leaving is also fraught

With graver repercussions that one could have thought

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Trapped in an endless cycle it seems there is no way to exit

I can only hope in this situation that Karma does exist