Fields of Poetry

I don't know how to love him
What to do, how to move him
I've been changed. Yes, really changed
In these past few days when I've seen myself
I seem like someone else . . .

Friday, November 7, 2008

Do not slander the probity of a token

Do not slander the probity of a token
by: Pmel Oki


Do not slander the probity of a token

a pledge is not just scripted upon paper,

it burns deep, deep in the stoical skin.



Perfidious lovers, uncouth and vacillant

will gauge commitments as one to wager,

do not slander the probity of a token;



for in its vows, true love finds protection

bound by the idiom -- its unerring power,

it burns deep, deep in the stoical skin.



And those illegible to what it portends

will in the wilderness, see their souls torn asunder.

Do not slander the probity of a token



it is also an instrument that may spawn delinquents,

a likely beast that in its betrayal cower;

It burns deep, deep in the stoical skin.



Know the destruction that which lies therein

the deed that which completes man endowed with words.

Do not slander the probity of a token,

it burns deep, deep in the stoical skin.

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