From the movie Napoleon,
“it is said the French fight for money and the British fight for honor and glory, each fight for what they lack the most!”

Some fight for money
others for honor and glory
some fight for freedom
or respect and power
but always it is for what
they are lacking.

In a way we are always
fighting for survival and
something more, something
which gets us another
rung upon the ladder
something beyond
where we find ourselves.

It is a way of our species
like the mountain goats
claiming its rocky claim,
its right to determine
the future of a species.
There is no gilding of
a greater good, it is
just who we are.

Leaders who lead
the fight know how to
appeal to the lacking,
to the crassness of the need
to be above others,
to be in control and
win in order to restore
something long lost.

And so too then
ration and reason
compassion and empathy
fairness and equality
are values we must be
lacking for we seemingly
must continue to fight
for these!