Poem: Success

We aim to create a life of success.

Approved and certified.

Where we trade our soul 

for the “needed” elements, 

the right combination,

the right choice,

for what we have been told 

will give us a stamp of approval.

Success in the name of evolution, progress, pride, luxury, cash...

Success for what “we are told we want”

And if you don’t... you are damned.

If you question it intellectually

you are brave and respected

but if you live it... you are crazy.

Because success is a packaging designed and created to impress

and give us the value that inside we aim.

Success is the holy grail of our society.

Waiting to be discovered between the ruins of our ego

outside the limits of convention

and the rules of the system

that is setting you to fail.

By Dakini Elora