Rome wasn't built in a day It was built by wise stoic & blood-thirsty Conquerors Patient stoics consolidated & maintained order Megalomaniacal Conquerors expanded &dominated But how many could do both? A handful - Augustus - Tiberius - Trajan - Aurelian - Constantine It's hard to do both If you're lucky you can do 1 well But to truly ascend Meditating between madness and reason Both raising your sword in adrenaline combat & laying foundational bricks in the hot sun Is the path I'm traversing How anxiety-racking it is to go into combat To fight, fight, fight Until you love to fight Then you live by the sword But those who do Die by the sword So you must return the painstaking (PAIN PAIN PAIN STAKING) patience Of laying foundations Until the warrior is dead & the stoic is born A wise man who once said nothing at all Biting your tongue Simply building In mind-numbing boredom & silence Until you love it But the man who lives...