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Foolishness
I TRIED TO CROSS TH
Eric Pettigrew
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I tried to cross that bridge today
To reach the beckoning bank
Why I did it I cannot say
Perhaps I have you to thank
Or maybe myself to blame or curse
For I fear on the other side
No matter what I feel inside
My life would well be worse.
What farms are those I'd leave behind
Those blue remembered hills?
The wanderings of a restless mind
Are the cause of many ills
And the weakness of a selfish man
Who surrenders to a life apart
For a dream of no more substance than
The fickle beating of his heart
Is nary proof he still has the nerve
Or that he has rediscovered youth
But might instead a lesson serve
And bring home a bitter truth
And demonstrate to him again
How true that age-old rule:
There is naught more pathetic than
the wisdome of a fool.