When Or If Poem by James McLain

Advice if asked is based upon one simple truth
opened and kept wide are they with sight.
Some give away their lives for what is right
while others beat a path, straight out of sight.

Precognition not in a dream, kept wide awake
yet in sleeping each good King, relies upon.
Failure is a virtue if one can raise them selves above it
yet most feet are wisely anchored to the ground.

Some will play the victim none can sway
while one must play a roll, an honest face.
Now a secret few can hold and fewer ever will
secrets without trust for gold are always told.

True friends will always stay no matter how it ends
while those that weren't a proven friend
have like a thief in your good night, nigh walked away.
Good men are if in reach, what's more to ask?