The Loving Guilty

The Loving Guilty Make this choice End up making another choice And still feel guilty About the two Guilt exists no matter what we do For the compassionate Guilt Is a multi edged knife No one leads a guiltless life Faced with decision Some other outcome Always is For someone A cause of guilt And we can be guilty Of not wanting to lead Or facing the guilt Of a guilty life To do one course of action it seems we must It is impossible to choose None For no action has its own reaction In guilt All life is guilty Of making a choice Between foreseen and unforeseen consequence Leave one in sorrow Leave one in happiness Live one in sorrow Live one in happiness Both have their hands tightly clenched On guilt Guilt is a wish for perfection For a perfect solution Amidst the imperfect forces of choices We are confronted with Guilt can be seen in a life un-lived Or a wasted life that gave up on love It can be a life so scandalously lived Or one that fed too much on love And guilt is the dungeon of every dream Guilt is the squandered wishing-wells penny With too much compassion Your heart can freeze And then Guilty For never having lived At all Guilt is a poor appeasement of conscience That leaves you immobile Make this choice End up making another choice And still feel guilty About the two Guilt exists no matter what we do It is perhaps a great tribute to mankind That it has to choose between loving Made guilty By the necessity of choice There is no perfect solution And someone is always going to get hurt What do we do, what do we choose Between guilt’s This course of least resistance Guilty then For not having followed Your heart