Integrity

How easily
We give our word,
We’ll do this
And we’ll do that,
But life intrudes
And we soon forget
The commitments we made.
We wonder why
No one believes
What we say,
Why no one
Takes us seriously
When we say
We are going to do something.
Our word is all we have,
It is who we are.
If we don’t value our word,
Why would anyone else?
Each time we say we will,
Then renege,
A bit of our credibility goes,
A piece of us dies.
Sometimes it seems
We assume
Those closest to us
Have the shortest
Memories of all,
That keeping our word
Doesn’t matter to them.
Integrity is having our actions
Fit the words we use
No matter who
We are dealing with.
The power in having integrity
Is that our word
Is as good as gold.
Wouldn’t this be
An absolutely amazing place
If each of us did
Exactly what we said?