Where duty’s demand and desire meet,
harmonizing freedom and coercion,
lies the intersection where my conceit
dies as your needs cause my wants’ conversion.
One road seeks naught but fulfillment espied
in objects of lust yielding happiness.
This lengthening road, eroded by pride,
leaves wanderers lost in their selfishness.
The other rends what should conjoined remain
as exaction extracts the bitterness
of failing actors, who failings they blame
on others alone, themselves lone distressed.
Where duty’s demand and desire meet,
Love lives with forgiveness and joy complete.
[January 12, 2014]
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