Life is a Perplexity

Let go of your ambition,
Desire means nothing in this society.
Give in to the tradition,
Become a victim of propriety.

Be who you were born to be,
There are no gratuitous dreams.
Nothing in this world is free,
Its not as easy as it seems.

This life is no fairy tale,
This world is only unfair.
They set you up to fail,
Unaware that success is rare.

Today you are youth,
Tomorrow you will be old.
Its an inconvenient truth.
That some of us are never told.

Life astuciously hits you hard,
Consummately without remorse.
Once you feel you have a guard.
Its poison will take its course.

You will long to do well,
Strive to be the best.
Only to bid fantasy farewell,
Because in the end you are like all the rest.

We are all women and men,
Nothing will set that apart.
We will live and die again,
This life was not the start.

We will all crave meaning in this existence,
That has been riddled time and time again.
Acquiring accomplishment through persistence,
So we can all forget who we were then.

Life is a perplexity,
But we all must do our best.
Dealing with its complexity,
So this world we can digest...

(c) JP 2007