WHY, TEMPTATION, MUST I GIVE IN TO THEE?
Why, temptation, must I give in to thee,
Why fight then fall beneath your curse¢d grip,
Lost in moment’s madness, pleasure see,
The instant of my strength weakness, one slip?
Why, temptation, must your long shadow play
Strange yearnings unseen on my cleansed mind -
Renew thyself in death for thy new day
On one who replete to you’s now blind?
Temptation, I have this quarrel with you -
Your peace is but a pause before you strike ;
And worse, before my mortal pace is through
I fear with me you’ll do just as you like.
For I am foolish, proud, and not so strong:
Temptation - with me you can do no wrong.
28/5/00
Bit of an old-fashioned sonnet, this, what with the thees and thas, but what the heck.
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