BROKEN PLEDGE

The realization that promises made in good faith can't always be kept.

By Stanley Collymore

 

I always said that I would wait until I was

married before I decided to lose my virginity;

for there was more than the act of making

love  at stake, and therefore too much to

lose in recklessly abandoning the

principles I’d been carefully

brought up on, and which

had always been the guiding lights

of my life; but just as importantly for me,

a constant and reassuring means of

protection Against my own

temptations spurred on by those

who would seduce me with their

siren calls, then use and abandon me.

 

Something I could never countenance or

allow. For to do so would irredeemably nullify

every vow which I’d religiously pledged myself.

Then I met you - and without a moment’s

hesitation or consideration

for what I was doing

I brusquely cast aside years of sensible

self-restraint and admonition. For the devil

in you had supplanted the saint in me;

and any notion of my going back

to where I was previously, was

simply out of the question.

 

ã Stanley V. Collymore.

24 December 1997.