What does it Take?

What does it take?
It can't be measured like distance
Calculated by time
Expressed in rhyme
What it takes can't be bought
Be sold
Whether young, old
With silver and gold
It can't be wrought
Neither timid neither bold

What does it take is what it wasn't
Isn't
Should be, shouldn't
It can't be weighed
Not physically, philiosophically
Can't drown because it can't breath
Won't breath
Needs to just as it doesn't

What it takes has nothing to do
With you or i
Faces behind faces
You can't begin to see where the lines begin to
come together
What does it take?
Certainly not trying
Or giving up