If you are stressed, <br />And at times depressed! <br />With thoughts self defeating <br />From a beating you digest. <br />Perhaps you should relax! <br />Give your mind a rest! <br />Chances are you suffer... <br />During thoughts 'infested' <br />With concepts of success! <br /> <br />Let go of comparisons, <br />To others and what they have! <br />Chances are everything they own <br />Is rented, leased with or without... <br />Something that keeps them feeling sad! <br />If you are happy and glad, <br />To be just who you are... <br />Your star shines much brighter, <br />Than those pretending they are better <br />Than anything you 'really' are! <br /> <br />Concepts of success, <br />Can distract someone who is blessed! <br />Many have not achieved that at all. <br />And they spend much time... <br />Trying to keep hidden a mess, <br />Kept concealed in their hearts... <br />For fear of sharing with you, <br />What they are too afraid to confess! <br /> <br />They are locked into images... <br />And spending every waking moment, <br />Doing their best <br />Wishing to impose <br />An impression they are hoping, <br />Remains in the minds exposed... <br />To trinkets that are flaunted, <br />With price tags still shown on clothes! <br />And there are so many of them, <br />'High and fixed' <br />Blissed to sit with lives committed... <br />On an ego overdose!<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/concepts-of-success/
