Ambition Poem by Vidya Pandarinath

Though amusing and absurd it seems

Ambition is but best fulfilled in dreams -

Wild, wicked, fair and square - all alike,

Float on high, light clouds and strike

The abstract note on the zenith top,

Never reached but is sure to flop

And the excited unreaching, unreal mind,

Falls down into the baffling bottomless find,

Like the slackened echoes from a distant valley;

And the darkening beams from the rally

Fade like remote reflections from the sky,

Covering all with russet patch and golden dye;

Movements and efforts helpless as of palsy struck;

All incite the raging, floating seeker to duck -

Down into the dismal, disturbing and delusive wake,

Gasping, lip-licking and seeking the aqua -slake....!