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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHY FLIRT WITH FATE, by ILEY WINN
First Line: Our wicked acts we would like
Last Line: Memory hears your last sad rites read.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Our wicked acts we would like
Last Line: Memory hears your last sad rites read.
Subject(s): Memory
Our wicked acts we would like
To be forgiven -- we very much dislike
Mention of them, it ever harries,
With the menace that memory carries.
As they so often cruelly remind you,
That they can't be left behind you,
Matters not how slyly you connive,
The memory of your past will survive!
You may make yourself silly on dope,
Others' minds are keen, there's no hope.
They'd forget secrets they love to share
With others, who'd tell it everywhere.
Gossip wouldn't paint your record white,
Even shadows shy at public limelight;
By your yearning wish be not misled,
Memory hears your last sad rites read.
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