Three Stand Before The Champion

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Dark Poetry #3

Three Stand Before The Champion

Purity
Senior Member

since 2001-11-20

Posts 526
Once Upon, USA

0 posted 2002-09-28 03:26 AM

Three stand before the Champion
Complacency, Infatuation, and Spiritedness.
The place, a mere empty, cold large room.
The challenge before them
is simple in its complexity.
Each of you possess your own self worth.
Use this to acquire that which you know
will fill the room.
One shall win the Champion’s
all as their reward.
Complacency smirks, yet returns in time
with a barrel of hay that barely misses
the mark of entirety in his task.
Infatuation knows her desire for
victory in this reward,
and ponders before finally returning.
The bulk of her thistle
indeed surpasses that of Complacency
for her need in competition is greater,
yet still she fails to fill the room.
Spiritedness arrives much later,
and appears to have nothing to show
for his lack of efficiency.
You see, with his lot, he bought
a friend in need a nights feast,
returning with only a single
white candle and one match.
Spiritedness lit the candle,
the glow of which filled the entire
room with light and warmth.

I seek not a victory
over Complacency or Infatuation.
I strive only to provide the most
I can with what I have.
I only want that which is
rightfully mine by goodwill.
The reward in this challenge, indeed:
I want nothing more.
Yet it is in its own desire to give
that I can find solace

[This message has been edited by Purity (09-28-2002 03:28 AM).]

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

1 posted 2002-09-28 03:57 AM

that's the
Spirit!

thoughtful
wise
and need's some spreadin roun

missed ya round here
pure
good to see ya

brian

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

2 posted 2002-09-28 09:58 AM

Friend Purity,
If where you've been, has brought us this, t'is a place I need directions to.

A very fine page for the yearbook of disquiet.

~Ed

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

3 posted 2002-09-28 12:58 PM

Now THAT is a poem, Sir.

I love that light fills the room --
and even makes it warm.

Thanks for this poem today.

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