Stand Back And Use Your Head (Sun Tzu 3:5) (Is. 55:8; Proverbs 15:12; 1 Peter 5:8; Psalms72: 12-14; Psalm 42:9-11; Matt.26:36-46)

Make this your aim when off to war;
Ensure it’s done, desire it more –
Use brain not brawn if possible,
Then to the bank with loot you’ll go.

All under heaven that’s in the world,
At your command amidst the swirl,
Will give you options far and wide,
So troops intact can all abide.

A range of methods you can use
To gain objectives you might choose;
And if you grasp, “Keep all intact”,
You’ll be successful in attacks.

For others will contend with you,
You’re right to master all or few;
It matters not, some lust for power,
And seek out those they can devour.

So keep things tight, intact, preserved;
Contest all factions, though absurd
It be for them to come to power –
Stand back and think – lest things go sour.

If you can win without a stroke;
Or loss of man; not going broke;
Your weapons sharp not battle-dulled;
That will transpire when you’re not lulled –

Into their game (reactions poor,
Your best intentions down the sewer) –
But rather, standing back with thought,
You seize them whole with what you’ve got.

Such fundamentals are an art
Of war – emerging from the start –
A strategy of sword in sheath,
As power of thought is what’s released.

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