Ambition

Ambition
An overriding need to be vilified by your enemies in life
And ridiculed by your friends in death1
But at least if you take a wife
Your ambition becomes of this earth

And the social creatures we are
From our ambition people are never afar
Seeking the loss of personality
That we may be acknowledged with gravity

And in doing so fall into a labour
Pregnant not of our own proclivities
But those of who beacons from the harbour
To make ridicule of our miseries