-'Tis Human To Err-
'TIS POWER, TO THE PEN OF THOUGHTS TO WRITE
FOR WORDS OFT' TIME SPOKEN ARE ON A FLIGHT
TO A NOWHERE LAND AND THEN LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME
BUT PENNED, NOW THOSE WORDS ARE IMMORTALIZED
IN THE MINDS OF THE PERUSERS TO BE SCRUTINIZED
COMMENCE THE WRITING THOUGHTLESS IN MIND TO FREE THE PAIN
TO CLEAN THE AIR TO RID THE GUILT
AND HIDE THE SHAME OF IGNORANCE NAME
AND MISUNDERSTANDING STACKED UP TO THE HILT
'TIS HUMAN BUT TO ERR AS BEFORE SO OFT' DECRIED IN SHAME
THIS FEAR AND FEAR ALONE THAT SETS THE DOUBT
FOR FEAR IS LACK OF FAITH AND HARD THE PATH TO MAKE
'TIS LIES AND DECEIT THAT ULTIMATELY MAIMS THE PATH
AND RUINS THE LIVES OF PEOPLES DEVOUT
IT'S PEOPLE WHO PEOPLE SICK AND IN DOUBT MAKE
WHETHER ONE WOULD CREDIT THE FACT OR NOT
TAKE FOR INSTANCE AND FOR ARGUEMENT'S SAKE
THE THREE THINGS THAT CAUSES AFFINITIE'S ROT
YOU, THEM AND THE OFFENDING SUBJECT
THEN ASPERSIONS CAST AND SLANDERING BEGIN TO MAKE
THE SUBJECT OF THE DEBATE LONG LOST IN REGRET
FOR RIGHT MUST BE THE PATH TO TAKE
'TIS BUT HUMILITY HEIGHTENED TO APOLOGISE
'TIS ONLY BUT HUMAN TO ERR, AND THAT FACT, TO RECOGNISE.
Copyright © Christopher Stopford | Year Posted 2012
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