A Vow To Myself Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

A Vow To Myself

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I asked for your blessing…
instead you explained

What I should be paying
to garner acclaim

You told me if only
I'd do it this way

My words could have meaning
and influence—sway

But power and fortune
are not what I sought

If influence only
gets brokered and bought

So the blessing passed over
no bribery done

A last vow to myself
—from you I must run

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June,2016)

Saturday, September 1, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: truth
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