Hi friends: This is a Poem I wrote a few years ago that I’d like to share with you, entitled “Character.” If you have any thoughts on the poem you’d like to share, please write.
Character
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An ancient song stirs in my memory
like wildflowers shouting
on a hill, and it says:
“Not a leaf astir upon the tree,
Not a ripple on the surface
of the shining pool.
Silence is the cornerstone
of true character.”
I guess the mountain thinks so
as it breathes out its majesty with every breath,
and the prairie also,
stretching forever beyond gray city walls.
Yet there are times
when silence is not true character,
and life makes a strong wind blow
on the prairie or in the human heart.
It demands that a human mouth speak,
maybe yours, maybe mine,
and say the thing that must be said
if truth and love and kindness are to have their way.
What is it,
this thing called character?
Only my heart knows,
as it turns to a light so close
and yet so illimitable
I’m not sure it really has a name.
