Heroes Unknown and Lost Songs Lamented

Heroes Unknown and Lost Songs Lamented

These are the noblest    These who eschew praise and the hero’s portion

These who know the silence beyond the silence

Desire is a fickle mistress, following the fancies of the moment

Today’s rising tide is tomorrow’s forgotten triumph

Envy is the origin of plots and tragedy takes root and sprouts

Pride is the bane of glory

Anger is reckless in battle

Ignorance births a thousand roving dangerous bandits

Songs and sagas of deeds rise and fall like waves in time

The stories of gods and kings in the memories of their subjects support the kingdom

Unsung beings dwell everywhere

The mother caring for her child

The man keeping to his unpleasant work

Those who do what they can for others and wish for more

Those who are the mother of them other

Mahamahama, Great Grand Mother, Mother of Them Other

Praise and Blame are symptoms of the world illness

For fame and for gold is the call of the explorers

The gold of wisdom outshines wealth

And the fame of sincere friendship outshines the fame of memory

Heroes of old said that their names would be remembered forever

But names are mere names and even so they will fade eventually

Deeds of non-deluded friendship resound throughout eternity

And ride on the subtle mind through lives to come and go

Hero of Awakening

Allow us into your hidden realms where methods of skill go and Wise Mind dwells

Whole worlds and their children need us now

To lure them from dangerous delusion

May clarity of purpose and vigilance of duty reign