To be Resolute . . .

A purposeful, steadfast stare
give to those few days in our paths
promises made, broken and kept
do we need a new epoch for avowal,
circling our own lives with a new fence
keep out or gather in, like friends
on the shoulder of our character
spirit within, vowing compliance
time has an answer to our prodding,
will we be resolute, strengthen our will,
but a question remains, answerable
but yet remains asking
the made promises, laid ourselves
are they what we want
need not promise on the dawn of an era
but on every dawn that needs change
as resolute as resolute can be
so does it warrant our every soul
for truthful adjustment to our living.