Keep Pace, Rat Race
Coupes skimming fly, gently humming of engines and tires.
Listen closer, and hum turns to cheetah’s roar, pushing for
A harder pace, an impact-- No achievement is frictionless.
Jaguars leap and bound, a mile-a-minute, sometimes more.
The roads are not sky but earthy jungle, fighting for the fittest.
Who craves Icarus
Shall fall once more to Earth
For what goes up, must...
Copyright © Faith Ellen Lam | Year Posted 2019
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