Bestowing honor and gratitude

By service to the creator of life

Menial and inept yet virtuous in all ways

Adorning a million stars and

Seeking broken hearts to mend

Boldly gazing into the eyes of adversity

Bracing the battle of affliction

The journey may be long

Carefully nursing the savage roots of courage,

At every glimpse of hope

With avid blades of tenacity and valor

Slicing through the storms of strife

Only moments before dawn, the battle has just begun.

Crushing every adversary in buoyant persistence

Passionately upholding the pillars of virtue

Owing to vigor and love

Earnestly seeking to defeat misery

Fearless and uncanny, raining tears of joy

A vision of victory, clear and devout

Win or lose, bleeding or bruised

It is never about the fight

But the value of excellence achieved,

In due to the pursuit of love and perfection

At the service to a mighty king

The reward and comfort of finding peace

Within the warrior in you

--Anze--