The Virtues     

[The four cardinal Virtues are shown in the picture above, but, there are many others like Faith, Hope, Forgiveness, Persistance and Love. These verses show a greater understanding of their qualities.]

You see us all

More clearly now

Through Virtue’s glasses

We show you how

To excel and bypass

Vices many

To seek pure Paths

Where there aren’t any

Invisible to eyes

Which cannot see

Are ways of golden

Opportunity

Your Age corrupt

And sinking low

Can never show

The Way to go

No competition awaits

A Virtue-led Soul

For guaranteed riches

Are in your control

These riches extend

Beyond money you know

They lie in revealing

The Way one should go

When confronted by darkness

Without any light

You carry your Candle

And use your insight

The darkness escapes you

It flees and it flies

It can’t stand your Presence

Your Light makes it die

The People remain until

Cleansed of their sin

Our wisdom can guide then

On where to begin.

No darkness is complete

As an ember of light

Is given to all

So they darkness can fight

Behold revelation

This Battle will come

For darkness seeks most

To block Light from the Sun

This battle will fail

For seeds like you sow

Will undermine much

That the darkness did know

Ponder these words

And see their infection

For Virtue can spread

In every direction

While evil’s diseases

Seek to enslave

Virtue’s results are

The free men it's made!

Stay to the Course

Hold to our Light

The victory’s certain

Over agents of night

It’s true that all players

Are portraying their role

That the people demand

As they give up control

Self-discipline’s the Goal

And Responsible deeds

Our Soul seeks them out

It’s our Destiny’s need

Eternity lives in

Eternal directions

As Virtues won’t ever

Require confessions

And, where there’s no guilt

‘cause there isn’t a vice

There’s no hesitation

From doing what’s right

What’s Right leaves no damage

Except to what’s wrong

It urges us back to

Where Virtue belongs

This lesson in verse

Unexpected it’s true

Was needed to set out

The things left to do

No greater a Gift

Than to save what’s condemned

By it’s own silly folly

To ‘virtue’ pretend

When vice sees it’s neighbor

It revels in song

For it strengthens from sharing

What’s wrong with what’s wrong

They stare at each other

And plan secret feasts

With their neighbors as victim

As their wars they release

All men in dark caves

Will be blinded by Light

The darker, the easier

To take away sight

For a cinder, a spark

A splinter or beam

Of lights all’s that’s needed

To break up their team

For then blinded, they’ll scatter,

And in every direction

Abandoning alliances

Bereft of protection

When Dawn then of Virtue

Comes on full light

The world is transformed

To a beautiful sight

Translation of souls

Is the Beauty we speak

The birth of new world

Taking Souls to new peaks

Translation, translation

Can happen within

Material surroundings

Don’t mean anything

When Gratitude rules

And Forgiveness is rampant

And Patience sits still

And all Vengeance abandons

New Rules then apply

For this day all were made

Assume then your fate

And build this new Way.

[Tags: Virtues, forgiveness, love, patience, vengeance, vices, virtue-led souls, corrupt age, dawn of virtue, gratitude, what's wrong, Destiny]