"Rule The World" A Stoic Poem

By: Jason Wright

There is a world I wish to control,

one for which I will be master,

I will manage the affairs of this world,

during times of joy or disaster.

It will not be easy.

Mastery of a world takes time, patience and discipline for sure.

However, I know it is a world that must be conquered so I will be unyielding in my efforts until I endure.

This world cannot be seen. There are only traces from the examples of my life by the fruit I have beared from the seeds I have sewn.

For this world is not one of matter as one may think.

The world I speak of is the world of my mind, the one world that is my own.