What Matters Most Poem by Mary Louise Mann Gabumpa

What Matters Most



A good name or great riches;
To be esteemed or silver or gold;
To be poor or a liar;
To do what is right and just or sacrifice;
A dry crust with peace and quite or a house full of feasting with strife;
A patient man or a warrior;
Who controls his temper or one who takes a city;
To have a little with righteousness or a much gain with injustice;
To be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed or to share plunder with the proud;
To have a little with the fear of the Lord or to have great wealth with turmoil;
A meal of vegetables where there is love or a fattened calf with hatred;
A walk with the wise or a companion of fools;
A righteous heart or a stomach of the wicked;
A man's riches that can ransom his life or a poor man that hears no threat;
A dishonest money or a money gathered little by little;
A hope... deferred or a longing... fulfilled;
A nobody and yet have a servant or a pretentious somebody and have no food;
A reckless words or a tongue of the wise;
A kindhearted woman who gain respect or a ruthless men who gain wealth;
A worth of wealth in the day of wrath or righteousness deliver from death;
The memory of the righteous or the name of the wicked;
The wages of the righteous or the income of the wicked.

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