Daily Poem: What Is Good?

I love to read and share poetry. What Is Good? is the first poem I am submitting for my new Daily Poem blog on Active Rain.                                                                                                      

What is Good?

"What is the real good?"
I asked in a musing mood,
"Order," said the law court;
"Knowledge," said the school;
'Truth," said the wise man;
"Pleasure," said the fool;
"Love," said the maiden;
"Beauty," said the page;
"Freedom," said the dreamer;
"Home," said the sage;
"Fame," said the soldier;
"Equity," the seer.
Spake my heart full sadly
"The answer is not here."
Then within my bosom
Softly this I heard:
"Each heart holds the secret,
Kindness is the word."