Sunday, January 12, 2014

THE DESIRE FOR FAME

to the blessed...


who waltzed through doors

others opened for them


who were fated for lives of influence and power

and did their worst but still claimed a prize


who never let any Reality into their bubbles

and succeeded because their own Reality was blessed...


you ache because you know the hard way

that even a Name will fade with time


and your works join a Public Domain of works and ideas

that have passed through other minds


with varying degrees of accomplishment and value

and your quest to be immortal will last as long


as a mind remembers it was you who rendered the work

oh at that realization you'll either fold up and die


in the memories of your time of strength and pride

or you'll hike up your socks and get moving


as well as age and the damages of living have wrought on you

will let you do...you who in your vanity wanted to rise above


the common mentalities formed your own commonality

as easy to classify as one butterfly from another


pinned to the corkboard of your fame....





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