Views in Verse on Success

A road to wherever…

What is the road to success?
Does ambition mean ‘the corner office’?
Or, perhaps to ‘work in a refugee camp’?
Commercial leaders, it is said, ‘live-life alone’.
Is ambition measured by ‘climbing the ladder’?
Or will taking-care of others be the prime role?
Is a pre-determined ‘path to success’ the answer…?
Or ‘getting the most out of life’ the main goal?

Some people aspire to little (it may seem)…
Just to be left to their own worldly devices
While passion for some can be so overwhelming
They simply ‘trust intuition’ then ‘go’.
Whatever the answer it involves some questions
About what one considers to be …‘right’?
A life grounded in some belief in social justice or
Should the tiger care-less about the sheep in the fight?

Life is often considered a journey
A passage from A to Z
Yet, really it is iterative, a circle,
Our actions clear enough to us in our heads.
So, in time, we alone will judge our success
Of that one can’t deny;
While our ‘road to wherever’ begins early
Something we’ll reconcile often ...before we die.

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Views in Verse on Responsibility

Views in Verse on Responsibility

JUSTIFIABLE CARELESSNESS

Is there anything quite as vulnerable
As the last child crossing the road?
Society comes as a triumph to all, less one,
The dispossessed wander off alone.
Is ‘justice for all’ just a pipe-dream?
Dark chasm, maybe a lie?
Is there anything more uncaring,
Threatening, contrived
Than the wink in a politician’s eye?

Do we need to callously use
Fear as a weapon …?
A peep behind a veil
May only expose a tear.
Is there a path beyond detention…?
Is there love for the gay we hold?
Can we assume that people
Simply make it on their own?
Are we protecting due rights of the old?

Does the media care at all for justice?
Or is indifference the palette they choose?
Feigned reality always has it's own killing field
Is truth the real victim of our news?
When we choose our leaders
Do we search at all for integrity?
A key ingredient …down the road
The alpha wolf always leads from the rear
Never leaving the weak exposed.

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