Actions Have Inconsequences

This is not to be contrary,
But piety’s inaccurate
In only pointing to results.

Your conspecifics want a lot
From you, and you depend on them,
And want all your good things from them,

So everyone raises children
To attend to consequences,
As if actions guaranteed them.

Sometimes, the butterfly twitches
Its wings and later storms descend,
But that has to mean erasure

Of some more promising action.
Consequently, it can only
Mean the continued existence

Of actions without consequence
That things ever get out of hand.
Remember that in your demands.