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# "Be Good"
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/be-good/
- Published: 2017-06-24T20:09:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-20T18:14:37.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Heartbreak and Loss, #16

"Be good,"  
And I am filled with confusion  
Singed with pain  
Filled with fear  
  
For what good  
Is implied in that allusion  
When your stain  
I hold so dear?  
  
I was good!  
T'was not delusion:  
Did I not return again,  
And without a sneer?  
  
We were good!  
And, in conclusion,  
My tears fell like summer rain  
And no one to hold me here  
  
It is not good -  
This old contusion  
Held a mem'ry in my brain,  
I must let go of this arrear  
  
So I'll be good  
And find some fusion  
Such that this loss does not me drain,  
Such that love is my engineer