My Best or My Worst

     Is this the first poem of the rest of my life
         or the last poem I’ll ever write

     No way to know, yet I durst*
         say, neither should be my worst

     But for my best I should strive
         ~ who knows how long I’ll be alive



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      *durst - archaic English for 'dare to'
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