Time and Chance

Merit was always the gold medalist Then came the shrewd unconcerned capitalist Who endeared and sold to many the cheap thrill At jaw-dropping prices reserved only for mastery and skill And I agree with Solomon that princes could walk on foot While vagabonds ride horses and busk in great loot Are there cheap persons with lofty personalities Are there cheap personalities exuded by lofty entities Hasn't time and chance robbed us of entitlement And haven't you more than once taken back sentiments For the winds of change blow to prove every man wrong Though once we may seem right but not very long It's no incentive to shun perfection be it as it may For it is the beauty when time comes for you to hold sway Bear you diligence and with it the purity of heart That time may offer chance for you to play a part For God judges a heart's motives and intents And to Him they rise as either stenches or scents In time and chance a man of skill shall stand before kings To the houses of nobility shall be his bearings And their every work shall be the emblem of the age Remaining as pride and memory kept in tutelage Descending the honour to children who claim equal citizenship By that alone even claiming half kinship K. Muitherero.