by Francisco Gomes de Matos

Patience
calls for calmness
may lead to serenity

Patience
calls for endurance
may lead to vitality

Patience
calls for kindness
may lead to amity

Patience
calls for compassion
may lead to solidarity

Patience
calls for self-control
may lead to humility

Patience
calls for perseverance
may lead to tranquility

Patience
calls for profundity
may lead to creativity

Patience
calls for humanization
may lead to DIGNITY

Patience
calls for conscience
may lead to SAPIENCE

(received January 19, 2011)