[chizzy]

Become strong!
Become strong!
Become strong without fail!
We need strength to be happy,
To be victorious.
The strong can help others
Transform their lives
Into lives of value,
Dedicated to truth,
Leading to happiness and peace.

Weakness is a source of misery-
Weakness
is to live in fear;
weakness incurs people's scorn
And abuse;
It has no power to fight back.

Weakness is a source of unhappiness-
It will make you a loser
And a coward.
The weak are bereft of good fortune;
The prayers of cowards are not answered.

What transforms such weakness
into strength
Is faith,
Buddhist practice and struggle.

Cowards
Burn with jealousy,
Often resenting others' happiness,
maligning and attacking
excellence.
They are losers in life,
Pathetic and base,
Possesing neither faith nor
character.

Courageous people of justice and
truth
Look down upon
The likes of such treacherous
cowards;
They pay then no heed,
Advancing serenely
Towards the future,
as loins.

Ther brave hearted-rejoice
Rejoice in struggles,
Welcoming them with pleasure
and joy.
The cowardly lose in every battle;
They are gloomy,cheerless
and pathetic.

Fear is hell;
Courage is joy.

Never forget
that devotion to faith,
Without be grudging our lives,
Forges,in the depths of our beings,
The heart of an indominable hero,
The supreme state of life.

With an intrepid spirit
We solemnly adone this existence
With justice,courage and
Triumph.
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SGI President Ikeda dedicated
the above new poem to all SGI members on Sep 4.
He presented the poem at the Tokyo Makiguchi
Memorial Hall in Hachioji,
during his acceptance speech on receiving
an honorary doctrate from
National University of Central Peru.