Enigma

Master, he asked
We were told of a man
Who was higher than the tower
The one with influence and wealth
The one they called Enigma 
Whose wealth transcends the ocean
That resides amongst the Kings
That priests, in the cities sought as God
His blessings, effective than the oracles
But him, we did not meet
His fortress we were told is lost

To them, the Master replies:
But to you I once told 
Your scriptures do confirms
That what benefit is it a man
That life he gains but lost his life
There was no enigma, in truth
In you resides the myth and the truth 
The trust in doubt, unto yourself
In the mind of man lives a myth
Of wealth, influence and power
Proves that man will never see
In him he made a slave to himself
When he made a man a paradox
Briefly he paused, then continues:

For all man in riddles he lives 
The enigma of himself and of him
In a lion lives a *****, 
It hunts to kill, not sin
But in a dove lives the peace, 
To peck, the grains and nest
But dove sees nothing but himself
Like lion to reign in its colony
Let it resides in you, the enigma
The powerful and the influence
The rich that priests worship
The influence that judges fear
For if a man agrees to a man. 
Or a man to another, his power
The man lives to other, a slave
So, I say unto you
The world is you and you, the world
That in you lives enigma, your mind
The beginning of your complications
That which your scripture once forewarns
For enigma lost his fortress
The fortress since been forgotten
Like your scripture, his life he lost
Let it not be a mistake
That I said your enigma you kill
Nay, but that you are the enigma
In that and which you choose
And that which they, sage do thought
The enigma they said once lived 
Was truth, because in you he lives
You, he awaits to wake and own
The enigma is mind of you
That will sits you amongst the Kings
When your wealth transcends the ocean.
But dies when your mind failed to wake

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