And if it is but pride <br />distressed no price of <br />pain will pay for such <br />absurd rigidity; an <br />obstinacy of thought <br />precludes less stressful <br />ways to make amends <br />as yet the mirror turns. <br /> <br />Agreed, it isn’t hard to <br />see who’s wrong and <br />fathom why accepting <br />that forever and a day <br />is bound to conscience <br />duly burned. <br />© 24 October 2009, I. D. Carswell<br /><br />Ivan Donn Carswell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/conscience-21/