Poems Don't Have to Rhyme

Guilt

Should I linger?

Should I stay?

Or might it be better

If I just went away?

Should I make my claim—

Should I take the blame?

I tried to do what's right,

But try as I might,

Fate has worked against me,

So how can you fault me?

Regardless of what they learn,

It is of no concern,

I am absolved of my sin,

As if it had never been,

I have won in more ways than one,

And this matter is solved and done.

If only I had known...