Sun

If fighting is sure to result in victory
you must fight.
But a fight you may lose
is far greater in magnitude.
If the dice may roll
for or against favor
you must fight
with zeal,
for chance always
lies subordinate
to effort.

Marble

I take up my tools again,
begin to chip away.
All creation is born from destruction,
careful blows exploiting
imperfection in form
to give sensation to meaning.
Resilient to effort, fleeting to time,
still I toil
to make a fraction of thoughts known.