A Vow To Myself
I asked for your blessing…
instead you explained
What I should be thinking
to lessen your pain
You told me if only
I’d say it this way
My words could have meaning
and influence—sway
But power and fortune
are not what I sought
If influence only
gets brokered and bought
So the blessing passed over
your lecture now done
A last vow to myself
—from you I must run
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Copyright © Kurt Philip Behm | Year Posted 2018
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