Virtue

My dear friend,


My very first blog post. Here I give you my (arguably) greatest work, Virtue. Always remember to give credit where credit is due. No stealing.




Life doesn't know what I want it to bring me
Love doesn't see what I need it to be
Strength has left me when I needed it most
Grace abandoned me when I started to boast

All that I know and all that I give
Is gone, just as I started to live
All I have left are memories of lost time
The memories I hold true and dear as mine

Suddenly I'm not as brave as I thought
Over the hills went the sense that I ought
To have kept
So I wept
I have earned what I recieved
If only I had just believed

Serenity was not a virtue for me
I stormed and I raged, now I cry and plead
Sincerity wasn't something I knew
Now I know it well, and honesty, too

Blind was the love that I had then to hold
Blind was I then, now I'm left in the cold
Do you know how much I loved you?
I never thought that you wouldn't be true.

Suddenly I'm not as brave as I thought
Over the moon went the sense that I ought
To have kept
So I wept
I have earned what I recieved
If only I had just believed

I have grown up so much since you left
I let you steal my heart, now I guard against theft
I'm not the young innocent I used to be
I can no longer wear my heart on my sleeve

Guarded and solid, I let no one in
I don't let you bother me, you can't get under my skin
I should have let virtue lead my life
Instead I forgot, and then came the strife

Suddenly I'm much braver than I thought
Back over the hills came the sense that I ought
To have kept
When you left
You have earned what you recieve
Now that I've somehow learned to believe




With all my love,


Alyssa






Owned by Alyssa Jeanne Witte, written and published May 2010, republished September 2010