R
Robert Harrison
Guest
Green Apples
In some remote corner of grand mama’s apple orchard
I did by chance meet a stranger.
My greeting to them was, if anything of an affable nature.
By some present misadventure, my salutation was somewhat kirt,
That by self inflicted punishment our meeting was to their hurt.
I, in insult, forbade to offer recompense by proffered hand of kinship,
Indeed, by my own action, their wound deterred towards friendship.
Oh, fool that I was ,for in my selfish sorrow a foe I fear did create,
Who, in their distress, an innocent was forced nie unto hate.
What thoughts are these that have no place in my mind,
For surely I was brought up to be of a gentlemanly kind.
If in my sorrow, I force others to endure my woe,
What of my future life, will it be that others decline to know.
Am I to remain friendless because dark sorrow fills my heart,
Which through my selfish anguish I inflict on another’s part.
Oh how I rue the day when in unbridled gluttony did I partake
Of grand mama’s green apple pie, and now, cursed with tummy acke.
In some remote corner of grand mama’s apple orchard
I did by chance meet a stranger.
My greeting to them was, if anything of an affable nature.
By some present misadventure, my salutation was somewhat kirt,
That by self inflicted punishment our meeting was to their hurt.
I, in insult, forbade to offer recompense by proffered hand of kinship,
Indeed, by my own action, their wound deterred towards friendship.
Oh, fool that I was ,for in my selfish sorrow a foe I fear did create,
Who, in their distress, an innocent was forced nie unto hate.
What thoughts are these that have no place in my mind,
For surely I was brought up to be of a gentlemanly kind.
If in my sorrow, I force others to endure my woe,
What of my future life, will it be that others decline to know.
Am I to remain friendless because dark sorrow fills my heart,
Which through my selfish anguish I inflict on another’s part.
Oh how I rue the day when in unbridled gluttony did I partake
Of grand mama’s green apple pie, and now, cursed with tummy acke.
