Your Character

Better that you own me

Then setting myself free

A one track mind sent out to sea

Confused over what you want to be,

Thought you were a rose in garden so dead

Funny how the lies flew right over your head

Each day living in news imposed dread

Not convinced after all has been said,

That’s what I get from a faulty mind

You surely gave me a taste of the bitter rind

You taught me how love can be so unkind

A storm approaches but it’s not silver lined,

The lies surround me in this corrupt sphere

Cruel and conniving you made that so clear

Into stormy waters we would steer

The thousandth production of King Lear,

Sometimes love comes at a terrible price

Before you give into impulse better think twice

The wisdom of a poet succumbing to vice

Heroes once noted now the embellishment of mice,

Now time torments me

Beneath the Hemlock tree

A forked tongue seems to be the key

Government corruption by decree,

You were a troubled cure

For a man who was unsure

Waiting for your words to reassure

But your character was much too impure.