Riches of the world can also be stolen, burned, or broken by any strong storms overnight,
Riches of the world promise you stability but dissolves the appropriate actions when tested,
Riches of the world might leave their owners restless, always guarding, never at peace with their efforts,
Riches of the world remind me that true treasure must be elsewhere, might be lost from what is in the present…
Investments in pride crumble when friends leave or are unwilling to help in times of crisis,
Investments in pride prove us fragile when titles mean nothing before any kind of pain or negativity,
Investments in pride rob me twice—once is when I trust my own, and again when they failed me,
Investments in pride show me not to build my own fortress in a trap of sand that would drown me deep down…
Accounts for life’s virtue grow stronger with each act of courage, with each moment of truth,
Accounts for life’s virtue ask for no luck, no kind of permission, with or without applause,
Accounts for life’s virtue stay firm when the world withdraws away with everything else,
Accounts for life’s virtue are the only inheritance I can never ever lose even in my grave…
Tests of loss strip away the ornaments from life until only my real character stands,
Tests of loss can take away my money, home, or health, but not my own reason,
Tests of loss ask me to choose whether to fear or choose virtue that I own,
Tests of loss refine me until I recognize what remains is still more than enough…
Enduring freedom stands to gain because virtue requires nothing beyond my own consent,
Enduring freedom stands whether I’m in feast or famine, comfort or in trial,
Enduring freedom stands at the edge of life, proving its final worth to rely on, to hope for,
Enduring freedom stands as the wealth with no storm, no enemy, and no kind of end can ever erase…
• Riches of the world fade
• Investments of pride fail
• Accounts of virtue grow
• Tests of loss refine
• Enduring freedom stands
