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Aspirations

December 31, 2012
By PoeticRambler BRONZE, Austin, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

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When is enough?
Does accomplishment
Define success?

When you reach the stars,
Will it be enough?
When the apex is grasped,
Where is the next handhold?

Would it not be better
To let dreams remain dreams?
When we awake from a slumber
We grasp at our alien cognizance.
If captured, will it lose
That which makes it desirable?

Yet without aspirations,
What do we have?

© Maria P., Bethseda, MD

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