Your word is your honour your word do not break <br />And you keep your promise when a promise you make <br />And though those who go back on their word never feel any shame <br />Your word and your honour are one of the same. <br /> <br />You may be the wealthiest person in the Town <br />And your's may be more than a local renown <br />But if you've been known to go back on your word people of you will say <br />That person to honour respect does not pay. <br /> <br />Without documented proof your word is useless in a Court of Law <br />And from that perhaps a conclusion you can draw <br />That without proof on paper 'twould seem all is lost <br />And your day in Court to you at a great financial cost. <br /> <br />Still your word is your honour and that's how it should be <br />And to break your word is dishonourable that's how it seems to me <br />And those who dishonour their word are those you cannot trust <br />Since a promise made is seen as sacred to the honest and just.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/your-word-is-your-honour/
