Slave to Unending Ambition

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Slave to Unending Ambition

- October 26, 2017

Those days will come

The days you've seen in your sleep

Surely it will

You will be greater than your dreams

Your fears will die in failing silence

Your tears will dry with whistling nights

Like dews on dawning mountains

The scars of worries will be gone

Never remembered, never forgotten

With those broken lips

You will command the world

At the tip of those fingers

You will sustain means and power

Will you be satisfied

When the world is at your beck and call?

If the universe is beneath your feet

And the heavens hidden within your pouch

Will that be enough?

As for me

The well of the gods will not quench my thirst

The feasts of the kings will not stop my hunger

I am a slave to unending ambition

My vanity is beyond human possibilities

You can take the crown 

And the pleasures of the throne

Give me eternity

Give me immortality

Let me outlive the sun

Let my name be mentioned through all ages

Let it resound forever on the lips of men

Let me never die when I die

Immortality is my goal

© Olatuja Oloyede