Quatrain of Moral Cowardice - 1604

Quatrain of Moral Cowardice

Cowardice - compromise

I set my principled intuition
aside so I could appear
as a logical
scholar,

I didn't want anyone to think
that I couldn't compromise
when I heard you
holler,

So we made a deal as God sat
on the sidelines and I
claimed a moral
victory,

But, in the end, I quietly
caved as you held hands
with lies I found
contradictory.

Yorktown Disciple
2006