Bound Verse

      TO MY RETICENT CRITICS

Don't be so bloody taciturn,
as though you could not speak!
I promise you your lips shall earn
the ear all true men seek!
Nor have you any cause to fear
what I shall say to you,
For I am also quite unclear
and wondering what is true.

So go ahead and speak my friends,
and don't hold one word back ...
I'm sure my own heart can supply
what praise or blame you lack!
But let me know now, by all means,
just what you really think
...I swear to you I worked too hard
to merely spill some ink!