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Dreams Only Die If You Let Them

Don't settle for mediocrity: a poem.

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Dreams Only Die If You Let Them
Alec Connell

A person's ambitions should be set on their own.

What achievements you strive for, you can condone.

It's true that all that can shine will not sparkle in gold.

Because a twinkling light may not always be so bold.

Some are not meant to be as generative, or as keen.

And sometimes stagnation is not a bad dream.

Getting by, clocking out, and set the alarm again.

9 to 5 every day, but you don't know why or when.

Everyone has their own idea of success.

To each is own, but I will be my best.


And it's not too late for you, you know?

There is nothing that says you can not glow.

Dust off the shelves, get off of the couch.

You won't find Rockefeller sporting a slouch..

Would 4 year old you be proud to look at you and say

"Wow.. That's gonna be me someday"

Chase after the life you've always wanted to live.

Settling for low, young you, would not forgive.

Embrace the passion that you always used to dream.

Modern money making mom's, let off your steam.


It's your only life -- It doesn't matter if you're set,

Or if you're confused, by millennials, on the Internet.

It's disheartening to see that some are just fine

Selling their youth, waiting in line.

Kids, teens, and gramps' too deserve a chance.

So stop letting the days go by. Take a stance.



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