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Read This If You Desire Wealth by Penwielder: 9:19am On Feb 08, 2023 |
A TALE OF TWO SONS A great man there once was Who was rich and powerful His barns were ever filled with crops And his winepresses of choice wine His farms so fertile produced abundant crops And his herds boast of enviable livestock He had two sons And unto himself called he them one day "Oh, ye sons of mine There are certain valuable things of mine Which I must now commit into your hands Do with them as you deem fit And let the level of your discretion be proven in this" And when the two sons were shown The valuable possessions of their father They found only a few seeds and a cow "Are these the valuable things father spoke of? But these are only a handful of seeds and a cow As rich and powerful as father is Is this not the most expensive joke? To call these little things precious" So, they wondered to each other Nonetheless, they knew they must not fail their father And the first son, not willing to disappoint his father Or lose his precious things Decided to hide the seeds where no man would find them Also, did he forbid anything, both man and beast From coming close to the cow "For I must protect father's valuable's and not fail him" So, he told himself But the second son Full of love for daring adventures Decided not to keep his father's valuable things Instead dug he the soil and sowed the seeds And his cow he did allow To mate freely with the bulls of the field "For let me see what these will bring" So, he thought daringly And so it was that as time progressed The first son went to check on his seeds Where he had hidden them But he was shocked to learn That the seeds had been destroyed by weevils And the cow too had fallen sick and died "How do I explain this to father? That I couldn't keep his valuable things" But when he checked on his brother His own seeds had multiplied and produced a rich harvest And his cow too had borne calves and increased "How did you do it? Asked he his brother And his brother told him "You were concerned about saving what father trusted you with But I was concerned with multiplying it" And the first son knew he had failed his father's test. ©J. Ebute (Penwielder)
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