Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Gold

Like there is gold in the rock
in the mountain of the land
Man is the rock in which
the gold vein began

Man shows his weakness
Too often you see
But man's a rock with the gold
Strong or waiting to be

Too many stand down
Not knowing their value
Unaware they are rocks with
The gold running shallow

The gold is the strength
Though man may not know
There only to surface
When he discovers his foe

Marian
September 24, 2009