Honor goes where others fear to tread

Speaks softly to the broken heart

Fears not to wake the dead.

Honor roars when principal defied

Disdains the truth- and evil’s multiplied.

Think what you will, honor doesn’t care,

Cares not for selfish pride— and will not share

His burden – all things bears--he perseveres.

Honor bound-- does what he must

To lay the foe of good in dust.

At Valley Forge he bent to pray

In fields of sand he stands today,

In classrooms ‘cross this lov′ed land

Honor does the best he can

To disarm evil dressed in garb

Of ridicule—of witty barbs,

Who laugh at their own jokes and drool

O're popularity with fools.

He braves the ruthless marketplace

And will not bend -- his name disgrace

By lies and fraud as others do,

Honor stands tall—Honor is you.

Honor is me, honor is all humanity

Can be when honed by grating steel

Of adversity—the potters wheel.

When choice is made that: “though

I bleed, I will be true to higher deeds”

I will do right and see it through

Disdain the cost--the one, the few,

who gather freedom in his hand

to tread the soil of a better land,

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Linda settles

www.RedeemingOurTreasures.com