Would I Trade The Words Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Would I trade the words…
would I trade for a song

Would I trade the words…
for a life ever long

Would I trade the words…
for a pulpit on high

Would I trade the words…
for the moon and the sky

Would I trade the words…
for immortality insured

Would I trade the words…
for your love still unheard

Would I trade the words…
for all fortune and fame

Would I trade the words,
—would my soul then remain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July,2016)