'To M.C. - My Moral Coach Poem by Margaret Alice

You believe in principles inviolate
while I believe in you only,
you believe in absolute truth
while all I can see is subjectivity.

I tried living according to
your theory – and guess what?
There was nobody left in my life.
I was bereft because nobody

could meet the high ideals you
and John C. Maxwell state to
be preconditions for living life
with integrity

my integrity is suspect I suppose
as I cannot meet your high standards
for morality, I am so human
and so fallible whereas you

insist on the highest principles
but maybe, just maybe
love unconditionally is quite enough –
I’m willing to give it a try, tonight…