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the price of success (Free verse) by brazen
nightmares haunt your sleep
as you dream your days away
masking all you fears
partial to moving, never stay
planning your next move
eyeing up your corporate prey.
pads of paper and various pens
projects daunt your daily life
computer hum and glowing screen
distract you from your wife
recruited by the poisoned dollar
morals but exist to create strife.
apply your mask each day
to mimic every face in the sea
all you are is a pattern
carved out of your own misery
lost to the grip of green
greed a menace for eternity.
still found time to spawn
your children mock you in rebellion
resentful of their absent home
artist daughter, gay son
ultimate sacrafice of economy
since you never learned to love one.
too old to keep your pace
kicked out by the young blood
trained them in your ways
they covered you in empathic mud
home now more to find
to your wife, simple crud.
stubborn tumor calls to you
saying its time to go
dying in a hospital bed
yet no one seems to know
they aren't coming around for this
you died years before, end of show.
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