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Open Poetry #39

Would, Could, Will

Grinch
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since 2005-12-31

Posts 2929
Whoville

0 posted 2006-10-27 02:24 PM

Will I with pride in heaving chest
greet flags upon conclusion of this race
or will my courage broken lie
unanimously marking my disgrace

Will friends once met who glimpsed the man
that hid so well behind this foolish face
cry floods of heartache or of joy or
will my passing slip without a trace

Would deeds fulfilled and marked for history
proclaim my name from steeples high
or will the little I have done or touched
or tried to touch all fade and die

Would sons I held whose very veins should hold
at least for me one reason why
stride hard to follow as I’ve taught
or teacher gone give up the will to try

Could words those tiny torturers within my mind
who mock my lack of skill
be final testament to one who hurt no man
and wished no other ill

Could truths instead of stones of doubt
be cast to ring upon my casket still
to keep one memory or will that die
as surely as this poem will

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