On Success

To bid unbidden souls to fight,
To stand unyielding in their light,
To send unwitting swords to fray,
To rejoice their derring-do by day,
And to shelter aft by night,
Thus is the warrior's way.

To lie belying truth at one,
To slander the not-yet begun,
To accost the cost of lies at two,
To affirm the need to follow through,
And desert before the task is done,
As politicians do.

And so can you.





I apologize for the hiatus from this blog; I was afflicted by what I suppose can be considered poet's block. In addition, my schedule was tighter than usual due to a project I was working on. Anyhow, here we are again.