Virtues
For courage and for vision, wide and deep?
What doctrine can replace our empathy?
What law, the sense for fairness, equity?
In all the matters where attention counts?
What substitute is there for honesty?
Can “training” truly open hearts and minds?
For acts of kindness born from looking deep.
Embrace the new and welcome it—and yet
Remember that the old is ours to keep.
Among the things that humans long have prized
Are all the virtues that were recognized
In ancient times. Though vices new appear,
We need those virtues still—and always will.
Brooklyn, New York
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