Side effects of a good idea

by BeautifulHorse

Poetic Justice (poem)

[Slice of Life] [Zecora]

Zecora reflected on a time now dated
When her speech flowed ideas of all kinds
Riddles and rumors left her friends frustrated
Her young self paid the cost no mind

Daring ideas and dreams were seeded
During troubled years for the herd
Youthful recklessness however was unneeded
And consequences had to be observed

Reluctant to charge a youth for dreaming
Elders concocted a creative plan ahead
To encourage the young to start thinking
Rather than simply saying what was in their head

To this day the penalty remains:
Those who cannot check their thoughts in time
Now must for all their days
Pause as they speak in rhyme

Author's Note:

I'm sure I saw this as headcanon somewhere. Unfortunately, I can't recall where.

This is a response to the prompt 'poetic justice' for this month's Flashfic 150. I chose hard mode: Write a poem incorporating the idiom (I hope I did it correctly).

When I was writing this I was also thinking a bit of the saying 'loose lips sink ships', but I couldn't figure out how to incorporate that.