In a sea of mediocrity
We toil while others sleep
Willing to resign ourselves
Bearing each risk, we leap!
In a field of negativity
With no ear to sympathize
We take the burden to create
What others criticize
Never do the sleepers
say
Thank you for this bold view
Or recognize our efforts made
To give them something new
Like lepers we are ostracized
And made to feel like wood
As if like robots we exist
In a world they never would
Trying to transcend ourselves
We wake to work and then
With vigor recognize the world
And still embark again!
Written
July 2001