Ambition

Since decades long ago, one wish not reached, 

Still haunts my soul with all tenacity; 

I know the Devil has my fences breached, 

And might have crept inside my sanity; 

The call of pride keeps dinning in my ears, 

Like trumpets of approaching cavalries, 

My action so deferred to latter years, 

Has youth and wasted time as penalties; 

But life unsung lays bare before Death's door, 

As reckoning recounts of feats achieved, 

The annals of the simple and the poor, 

Boast not of pages proud to be perceived; 

...If there be epitaph with gilded name, 

.. Miasma underneath still smells the same.

Reviews

[Rachelle]

The problem of being given free will is that we may forget that Wisdom should be involved… and so we float along the tides and waves of the worldly, many times blinded by the fact that we have to make our way home to His shores….

[Reyvrex Questor Reyes]

Rschelle, that is making it safe whenever our wishes would be fulfilled. Wisdom has to be invoked. For if every wish made, so far, were all granted, we might have wished for detrimental things without our knowing it. Thank you for the comment.

[Rachelle]

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/sweetbind/1332052/

[Rachelle]

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/sweetbind/1332052/

[Reyvrex Questor Reyes]

Btw, you might want to read my poem, "A Limerick"

[DeeZire]

Beautifully written sonnet about one recalling the journey of life
and lessons learned along the way. (and great picture!!!!)

[Reyvrex Questor Reyes]

Thank you Dee. Awaiting your nice poems to be read and reviewed, I do.