the ambitious and the greedy

New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve
Is filled with Dreams
Or rather Greed

All prayers for Fortune and Fame
All resolutions for Discipline and Diets
Meaningless, at the end of the day

For our goals are like fireworks
The journey up tumultuous
Draining in the worst kind of way
Nobody sees our efforts
the beauty along the ride
the strength it takes to fly so high
Because it doesn’t matter
Not to everyone else
Not to even ourselves

Then we reach
Our destination
What we want to see
Is the sparkly end result
The glorious glow up
The two seconds of surprise

We will shine in the sky
Above the whole world
Admiration and pride
In colors never seen before

Though after the grand debut
Downfall follows, freezes us
“You lost your sparkle”
That’s what they like to say

Soon the rush will be forgotten
“Make way!”
People turn their heads
To the new fireworks
Lighting up the moment

Don’t be surprised
Don’t grief either
Fireworks don’t tend to last
Nothing can stay sparkly forever

The heat of the second
Was indeed beautiful
But at what price?

mediocrity

don’t settle
for mediocrity
that’s the problem
could it be

feel guilty
for all the slack
that crept its way
onto my back

buzzing nights
sleepy days
once clear path
now foggy haze

no spark and flutter
not anymore at least
grown numb and tired
felt and lived, it ceased

burnt out candle
puddle on a desk
ungodly ambitions
just let me rest