I was sad <br />Having signed up in a rebel band, <br />Having signed up to rid the land <br />Of a plague it had. <br />For I knew <br />That I would suffer, I would be lost, <br />Be bitter and foolish and tempest tost <br />And a failure too. <br />I was sad; <br />Though far in the future our light would shine <br />For the present the dark was ours, was mine, <br />I couldn't be glad.<br /><br />Lesbia Harford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-was-sad/
