A Vow To Myself
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)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 27, 2019
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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