He Needed Someone

#1 · April 11, 2015, 7:34 am

Posted by: randal <randal@...>

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HE NEEDED SOMEONE
by J. Randal Matheny © 2015

He needed someone — a friend —
to tell him truth, to point
the way — I know this way,
for another showed it to me.

For fear I did not speak —
I let him suffer and die
And kept from him the cure —
Now guilt is killing me.

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