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On The Need For Success, Part I

You hear to many people now
look at success like it’s a crime,
that anyone who’s achieved it
only got it through acts malign.
That everyone who’s made it big
somehow must be an ‘oppressor,’
that it is all ‘exploitation,’
to dare rise above the lesser.
That’s there’s something wrong with winning,
it’s ‘evil,’ and makes folks feel bac,
I’ve even heard it called ‘fascist’
by ever-stupid undergrads.
To preserve everyone’s feelings,
to win power off jealousy,
we’ve demonized seeking success,
Llonized mediocracy.
But many who buy into this
have not realized all its effect,
and it does not take much to see
that people won’t like what comes next.

If success becomes demonized,
and brings criticism for all,
then people will stop seeking it,
this here is the start of the fall.
They’ll strop trying to do their best,
since doing so brings social pain,
by doing that it all declines,
what we have built goes down the drain.
Was it not the search for success
that built up our computer age?
Take that away and it stagnates,
what we have now is where we stay.
Was it not the search for success
that created high yield food crops?
Without that billions would have starved,
how many of us would be lost?
Does not success push the artist
to create what we’ve never seen?
To write the songs that move our lives,
the beauty that runs in our dreams?
Does not the mother seek success
when trying to raise the child?
If they did not seek such a thing
we’d all be brutish and vile...

CONCLUDES IN PART II.

Copyright © David Welch | Year Posted 2024

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