Post by Sentoryu on Apr 23, 2013 21:01:37 GMT -5
Camera fades in focusing on a finely maintained lawn of a large mansion.
The camera sweeps the outer driveway. A white Toyota FT-HS hybrid sports concept with black and pink stripes serpentines it's way up to the front of the Beautiful & Mysterious Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario. It comes to a halt and out steps Sentoryu. His head was bowed his voice was small, but powerful. He slow begins to recite a prayer that the fans had heard once before three years ago.
Birth is a beginning
and death a destination
And life is a journey:
From childhood to maturity
and youth to age;
From innocence to awareness
and ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to desecration
and then perhaps to wisdom.
From weakness to strength or
from strength to weakness
and often back again;
From health to sickness
and we pray to health again.
From offense to forgiveness
from loneliness to love
from joy to gratitude
from pain to compassion
from grief to understanding
from fear to faith.
From defeat to defeat to defeat
until looking backwards or ahead
We see that victory lies not
at some high point along the way
but in having made the journey
step by step
a sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning
and death a destination
And life is a journey;
A sacred journey to life everlasting.
This sunday I will stand across from a man. A man that now stands where I once stood. That man has grasped the brass ring. He now stands at the precipice of greatness. To finally step out from the shadows of a great man. To prove he is what his father had made him. In 2010 I stood in the same spot he now does. Winner of the Fallout. This match has been the springboard to the top of the mountain here in I:W. Will you Bobby-san, do what I had done. Will you beat me and move on to dominate the main event for the rest of the year? Or will you be like last years winner fade and wither, wilt and vanish,Victory is not what lies at the highest point of the journey, but in the journey itself Bobby-san. Are you prepared to take that journey, that next step? Sunday , time will be at hand for you to finally cash in on the potential that your father had seen in you. Will you finally become the man you were raised to be ? Or will you fall short and watch the past haunt you and the future become blocked again to you. You will come to this city, this "steel city" Will you be strong enough to stand in the Fighting War dragon's crucible of fire? Are you forged from the same metal your father honed to perfection? Or are you a cheap facsimile? Will you be the one to block the path of my sacred pilgrimage? Will you be like so many before you fall prey to the pressure and heat of the battle. Scorched by the the fear of my faith in my own skills. Sunday it will be with my most humble respect, that you will be put to your final test. A test to see if you are worthy to continue your fathers great legacy. To carry the name of Wiliams, to be honored with the right to carry the torch for this grand company. To defend this grandest of titles. To slay the dragon.
The camera sweeps the outer driveway. A white Toyota FT-HS hybrid sports concept with black and pink stripes serpentines it's way up to the front of the Beautiful & Mysterious Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario. It comes to a halt and out steps Sentoryu. His head was bowed his voice was small, but powerful. He slow begins to recite a prayer that the fans had heard once before three years ago.
Birth is a beginning
and death a destination
And life is a journey:
From childhood to maturity
and youth to age;
From innocence to awareness
and ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to desecration
and then perhaps to wisdom.
From weakness to strength or
from strength to weakness
and often back again;
From health to sickness
and we pray to health again.
From offense to forgiveness
from loneliness to love
from joy to gratitude
from pain to compassion
from grief to understanding
from fear to faith.
From defeat to defeat to defeat
until looking backwards or ahead
We see that victory lies not
at some high point along the way
but in having made the journey
step by step
a sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning
and death a destination
And life is a journey;
A sacred journey to life everlasting.
This sunday I will stand across from a man. A man that now stands where I once stood. That man has grasped the brass ring. He now stands at the precipice of greatness. To finally step out from the shadows of a great man. To prove he is what his father had made him. In 2010 I stood in the same spot he now does. Winner of the Fallout. This match has been the springboard to the top of the mountain here in I:W. Will you Bobby-san, do what I had done. Will you beat me and move on to dominate the main event for the rest of the year? Or will you be like last years winner fade and wither, wilt and vanish,Victory is not what lies at the highest point of the journey, but in the journey itself Bobby-san. Are you prepared to take that journey, that next step? Sunday , time will be at hand for you to finally cash in on the potential that your father had seen in you. Will you finally become the man you were raised to be ? Or will you fall short and watch the past haunt you and the future become blocked again to you. You will come to this city, this "steel city" Will you be strong enough to stand in the Fighting War dragon's crucible of fire? Are you forged from the same metal your father honed to perfection? Or are you a cheap facsimile? Will you be the one to block the path of my sacred pilgrimage? Will you be like so many before you fall prey to the pressure and heat of the battle. Scorched by the the fear of my faith in my own skills. Sunday it will be with my most humble respect, that you will be put to your final test. A test to see if you are worthy to continue your fathers great legacy. To carry the name of Wiliams, to be honored with the right to carry the torch for this grand company. To defend this grandest of titles. To slay the dragon.