Integrity

Fairness is a substance absolute,
To hold with firmess strong within your heart,
When others think of you they won’t refute,
That you believe in justice from the start.

If you should deal with persons on your way,
Who cannot seem to grasp this simple rule?
And treat you so unkindly every day,
They will not change so treat them as the fool.

Don’t dance the devil’s dance or you will find,
You give away yourself though piece by piece,
You’ll never teach the devil to be kind,
Don’t fight the demon find a quick release.

Just walk away and turn your back on him,
The chances are you’ve been burned by the fire,
The only way your anger will grow dim,
Is put yourself some distance from the pyre.

There is no shame to simply turn your back,
Don’t ever think that this now makes you weak,
A deadly form with which you now attack,
By grabbing hold the dignity you seek.

This will defeat the devil in his time,
At first he doesn’t see his battle sore,
He’ll wallow in deceit and pride his crime,
He may have won a battle not the war.

But you will rise above the fray to be,
Quite stronger everyday with single thought,
Just hold on tight to your integrity,
And find once more the dignity you've sought.

Peter Lowell Paulson
May 9, 2011