CCXCIV ~> Deceptive Certainties*
(1)
When people ask, “what can I do for you?”
You might ask back, “what is in it for me?”
Neither is virtue poignant to pursue
Nor non-pursuant destined to be free,
Designed from protocols of gallantry:
’Tis futile to keep the moral high ground,
Where emulators never near there found!
(2)
“Charity begins at home,” you are told;
Meaning, you practice decency at home;
Scheming no handouts for your own household,
Thinking of others wherever you roam,
Ensure your soul not be consumed by gloom:
Most things you gain from trying not to cry
Bring much less pain ere all the tears run dry!
Each time you stumble, get up
with a shrug;
Calibrate your bearings, and
journey on.
Neither dismiss a consolation
hug
Nor yet obsess with the hidden
weapon
That might cast you off into
oblivion:
Deceptive certainties reverberate
With innate penchant to eviscerate!
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Constancio S Asumen Jr ~> https://allpoetry.com/poem/13791778-CCXCIV---gt--Deceptive-Certainties--by-Ace-Lilacs
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