A Vow To Myself

I asked for your blessing…

  instead you explained

 

What I should be thinking

  to lessen your pain

 

You told me if only

  I’d say 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

  your lecture now done

 

A last vow to myself

  —from you I must run

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

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