Line

Come on, my friend, don’t be afraid,

I wish you’d be glad than be sad,

For glimpse in eyes, I saw gaze shy,

I guessed what might start this fright

If you know what I think you know,

Please see light in this I promise,

For this I keep to all I avow:

I won’t seek to cross this line.

This line, I know, I dared too well,

For my heart, too, knew when it sang.

Still worry not, for I honor my kin,

Through thick and thin, it’s here to stay.

So hear me out, please, when I say,

Worry not, and stay in delight

For journey’s long and dark and winded,

I seek to trust and repute our creed.

This creed to help, and do good a deed,

Beyond our skin and belly we fill,

I believe this above my greed.

So this is the line I vow to keep.

8.5.2024