The Ambitious

I haven't shone                     

                        thus far. 

I haven't shone                     

                        at all.                

                Not that time                             

                                   has stopped.               

               Not that the ambition                                     

                                           has long                                              

                                                      died out. 

I simply haven't shone,                             

                                  yet. 

Not a single glimmer                          

                             has come out                                       

                                                 of me, 

not a single ray                      

                         of light.  

I am still engulfed                         

                              in the night                                      

                                                   of mediocrity.                                         

                                                       Mediocrity...