Prowess

PROWESS

-noun

1. outstanding or superior skill or ability

2. bravery or fearlessness, especially in battle

One story is good, till another is told.

All as you say, I only know this:

I have taken with the forest;

Besides, you are not swift as the wind

At the altars in the neighbourhood

You will eat the dead and not the living.

And each other in strength and prowess

Unwittingly dashed against the signboard.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

Fable Salad is a found poem picked from:

Aesop's Fables - Translated by George Fyler Townsen -. Amazon Digital Services, Inc..