"The Coward"

"The Coward"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I

 I relied on your self preservation

but it can only go as much

It goes the way of the dinosaurs

when things are on the line

II

Oddly enough it was you who begged

to be spared until the end

Yet the actions you showed 

well misled me then and again

III

So it is much as your fault

As it is mine

when the life that I spared in you

is something I now took.

Optum. Quezon City. August 9 2021. 9:51pm. Poem 8 of 31.