Word

Given in haste

I did not think of it

Overlong

And only thought

Of what I had to gain

 

And much it was

As the promise of dreams

Was mine to grasp

If but I did

As I said I would

 

Only I wanted not

To be as true

As my word

For the gains

Would be so more

If I did not

 

Oh the choices of

Such difficulty

What will I do

And if I follow darkness

Will I turn

Forever dark

 

Charles Petrie