Best Poems Written by Sarah Schultz

Decide

You act like you know desire					
But you know nothing
About true passion,
Few really do.

I don’t want this-						      	
To give up a soul?
In hopes for life?
Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge!

A life for life?
In the end
Neither really matters.						     
But on that day
When the eyes of something
Greater
Look down upon a powerless frightened mouse
They will feel shame.   						     

All of us have been instructed
But none are golden, or pearl
The white in your heart matches the white on your sleeve,
But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall!

Neither you nor I can alter tonight				      
But choices-
This choice,
Will so bestow ourselves that seeing unseen.

And it’s true 
That inside							      
Will be dark and frigid
And cold

But light will rein down
Outside
Or so one can hope						      
If they can believe
In what they are told.

In the end,
Both will lie in ruin.
Purgatory						      	      
Will slowly consume
What was once thought
Noble.

I do believe 
No penance							    
Shall repay you
What will soon be lost.

I am wretched, for
I hold my duty as I do my soul-
With uncertainty, and hate.					     
Both should not be, 
And both haunt what is left of me.

To be or not to be, that is the question
We both must answer.						     
Yet, no answer 
Can save us.
And so, I have 
Decided-
No answer.

Copyright © Sarah Schultz | Year Posted 2011