In one corner sat my conscience <br />In the other stood my fate <br />My conscience it called out to me <br />Asking to negotiate <br />But fate refused to listen <br />And I lay right there between <br />The nagging of my conscience <br />And the seductiveness of dreams <br />When fate began to listen <br />And conscience ceased to rail <br />Against all of my weaknesses <br />Asssuming I would fail <br />Then peace fell full amongst us <br />And these players took their place <br />As artefacts of reason - not fundamental to the soul <br />And I stood tall amongst them <br />And finally felt whole.<br /><br />David Keig<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fate-and-conscience/
