This poem is best when read with Rhydian’s O Fortuna playing in the background.
Available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdv3yBDePQ
Did you ever ask yourself,
Why you aren’t what you dreamed as a child?
Why we are filled not with love,
but with vile.
Did you ask yourself why,
You lied to your self about your passions,
You admitted; to your self, defeat
You chose, your dreams, to forfeit?
Did you ask yourself why,
You chose to work for someone else’s praise?
You chose not to leave behind a magnum opus,
But live your life; not for your self, but the rest of us.
Did you not realise,
That history doesn’t remember compromise?
That those of us who are remembered,
Have but made that choice.
Let my words anger you,
And inspire you to what you want to do.
Make the choice of greatness if you wish,
As there is more to life than this.
Let others remember and see,
What your life has come to be.
Go on, leave a legacy
Not an obituary.
May 2, 2010 at 12:59 am
“Did you not realise,
That history doesn’t remember compromise?”
that is beautiful and very vey true. compromises, though essential, are never remembered, in life nor death.