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Robert Stone - I am: a sonnet of hopeful change

Poetry by Robert Stone: I am: a sonnet of hopeful change

When I am dead and buried you at last
will never need to worry what words more
I might dig up from our unhappy past
that you would choose with patience to ignore.

But I am still alive and spouting words
collected through my years of reading much
about the swimming fish and flying birds
and all the things I did not fear to touch.

If I am honest I acknowledge choice
to set aside all unkind thoughts and acts
and do those things that will make you rejoice
when best of me is guided by sound facts.

Yet I am shaking in my shoes afraid
of failing to achieve a passing grade.

- Robert Stone, 12 July 2020




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