Let me slip gracefully

Through unfiltered realms

Of flightful fancy free

Let my mind take part

Through vicious battles

And awaken a veteran brain

For when I sleep I learn

But learn not what a school teaches

I learn what is needed

What I will use to survive in the unlikely situation

I gain strategy that I do not need

For battles I will not wage

But I will keep them in my head

For one day I may

Should great fireworks rip across the sky

I will rip apart the air with bullets

From cannon fodder comes commanders

And commanders will cower

Under the might of a free range soul

A thought of questioning doubt

Will shake the strongest general

Because with free thought comes free practice

If we listen to everything we are told

We will never grow as people

When we fall we need to be picked up

But we do not need to be held

We need the advice, to stay away

But not the forced action to

Our mistakes will shape us

Because we are clay

And failure is the hand that will mold us

When we stand again remind them this

I am a stronger man if I do not show it

I am a better man though I may not know it

When I sleep I will gain what this means

And when I awaken I will put it to be