Sunday, April 9, 2023

"Pledge of Honor"

 






four walls   
         love, duty, responsibility, need   
                     box me into near solitude   


pressed by decisions   
         I bare this weight without grace   
                     floundering   


the brace of your love   
         supports me   
                     alone I will fail   
with three   
                     I can survive   


longingly, I look to our past   
         ache for its loss   


I fear today   
I dread tomorrow   


         trying to fulfill my pledge to honor   


Copyright 2012 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman

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