Truthfulness - Compassion - Forbearance Poem by Yiyan Han

Truthfulness includes
"Honesty, veracity, sincerity, no deceit, trustworthiness
Genuineness, candidness, frankness, openness, forthrightness"
Be true to always seek the truth
Speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Once the truth is sown on the deserted land of lies
The seeds of truth will turn the desert into an oasis
Once the kindling of truth is sprinkled into the darkness
The darkness will burn out in seconds

Compassion includes
"Kindness, big-hearted, goodness, goodwill, benignity, benevolence
Consideration, thoughtfulness, decency, public-spirited, social conscience
Charity, altruism, humanity, philanthropy"
Be kind to be a good person
The lotus flower rises from the evil sludge of waters
Her aromatic fragrance will expel the foul odor
When the seeds of kindness are sprinkled into the earth
The dirty dust of humanity will turn into the fertile land of conscience

Forbearance includes
"Tolerance, patience, resignation, endurance, fortitude, stoicism
Long-suffering, leniency, clemency, indulgence"
Be tolerant to those hard to be tolerated
To endure what hard to be bearable
Yet one can't run away from challenges -
When devil attacks one should fight back
And must always seek justice with a loving heart

Reaching the limit of truthfulness - compassion - forbearance
Is to stretch our hands to the Beauty, the eternal Beauty
The eternal God, can't be described in words and languages
The truthfulness - compassion - forbearance
Is what a human should be a human
The beauty of humanity, the only salvation of the world
And the only hope for the mankind to have a bright future


By Yiyan Han (c)
2018-01-07