About Ambition

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In the winter of life

my mind ponders
on this morbid thought

 

All that I am
and all I have been
shall be for naught

 

Fame, power
and fortune
I have always sought

 

Undisputed master
of all that
could be bought

 

Though many feats
and mighty deeds
I may have wrought

 

Greater are
the miracles
that the world forgot

 

If a lesson through
crumbling castles
could be taught

 

Nature of things is
to fail and fall
in dust and rot

 

So what has a lifetime
of ambition
truly begot?

 

To my great shame
An answer
I have not

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'u' Yep. That sounds right.


 

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allets's picture

Ozymandias Syndrome

from dust. Loved the serious content and the song of the form - see you aroung the site ~Lady A

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Thanks!

Thanks!