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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