Lyrics MY TREASURES - Akira the Don

For I know what
Happiness is possible
To me on earth
And my happiness
Needs no higher aim
To vindicate it
To vindicate it
My happiness is
Not the means to any end
It is the end
It is its own goal
It is its own purpose
Neither am I the means
To any end
Others may wish
To accomplish
I am not a tool for their use
I am not a servant of their needs
I am not a bandage for their wounds
I am not a sacrifice
On their altars
I am a man
This miracle of me
Is mine to own and keep
And mine to guard
And mine to use
And mine to kneel before
Mine to kneel before
This miracle of me
Is mine to own and keep
And mine to guard
And mine to use
And mine to kneel before
It's mine to kneel before

I do not surrender my treasures
Nor do I share them
The fortune of my spirit
Is not to be blown
Into coins of brass
And flung to the winds
As alms for the poor of the spirit
I guard my treasures
My thought
My will
My freedom
And the greatest of these
Is freedom
Is freedom

I owe nothing to my brothers
Nor do I gather debts from them
I ask none to live for me
Nor do I live for any others
I covet no man's soul
Nor is my soul theirs to covet
I am neither foe nor friend
To my brothers
But such as each of them
Shall deserve of me
And to earn my love
My brothers must do more
Than to have been born
I do not grant my love
Without reason
Nor to any chance passer-by
Who may wish to claim it
I honor men with my love
But honor is a thing to be earned
I shall choose friends among men
But neither slaves nor masters
And I shall choose
Only such as please me
And them I shall love and respect
But neither command nor obey
And we shall join our hands
When we wish
Or walk alone
When we so desire

I do not surrender my treasures
Nor do I share them
The fortune of my spirit
Is not to be blown
Into coins of brass
And flung to the winds
As alms for the poor of the spirit
I guard my treasures
My thought
My will
My freedom
And the greatest of these is freedom
Is freedom
Is freedom