“A GENTLEMAN’S PRIDE”

Where do a gentleman’s pride lies?

It is beyond his colorful dangling ties

Or in a sleek suit and his wide grin smiles

Where do a gentleman’s pride lies?

Not in his carefully brushed up hair

Nor the expensive shoes he likes to pair

Where do a gentleman’s pride lies?

Maybe in his expressive long strides

Or his perfume scent you’re trying to hide

Where do a gentleman’s pride lies?

In the tics and tocs of his cane I bet not

Woven in his silky sleeves? I think of it a lot

I think we’re looking in the wrong place

It is in his treatment of his loved parents

And his calmly demeanor in deadly torrents

Maybe it is not a place per se at very all

A class he shows in front of the crowds,

The way he handle his lady with gracious bows

In one of a tale a kingsman once said

Dear boy, thy manners maketh a man

Walk the righteous path,

Speak the truth beyond that,

Treat others with much respect,

This things you’ll never regret,

Now dear boy you know where it lies

Pledge!
Make it the very motto of your own life!

_myshl

0040H

03 November 2019

Source: FB

AFTER AWHILE

by Veronica A. Shoffstall
(1971)

After awhile you learn the subtle difference of holding a hand and changing a soul;

And you learn that love is not about leaning and company is not about security;

And you begin to learn that kisses are not contracts and presents are not promises;

And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of a woman, not a grief of a child. 

And you learn to build all your roads today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling in mid-flights.

After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much;

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers;

And you learn you can really endure and you are really strong and you really have worth;

And you learn and you learn and you learn.
With every goodbyes you learn...

After awhile.