Integrity

Lifeis filled with challenges

Totest the moral boundaries of

Honorand morality that

Stretchfrom here to there to where

 

Thebreakers of stability are

Cordonedfrom civility

Andsimple serendipity

Givesbattle to despair.

 

Andwe are want to rise above

Temptation’strap, to tug and shove

Anddistance us from those we love

Throughavarice extreme.

 

Whilerighteous indignation lopes

Tomuddle every dream and hope,

Welearn that life’s kaleidoscope is

Seldomwhat it seems.

 

Therebel in me wants to fight

Forevery cause I know is right

Resistingevil with the might of

Even-handedtruth.

 

Withcandor and sincerity

Toreach beyond what needs to be and

Musterthe integrity of

Tenderunspoiled youth.