Realization

When does one realize that everything they’ve worked for is a wasted effort at life?

Not one thing was decent enough to call an achievement.

You aren’t immortalized or brought to fame,

You sink down to the lowest level until you are

But a single grain of sand in an ever-expanding desert.

Can a grain of sand shout or laugh or dance? No.

It can only lie still and hope that one day, it might be

Anywhere than where it is right now.

How will it accomplish this seemingly impossible feat?

It cannot do it alone, but the natural forces will always be there to guide it along.

The winds of inspiration will lift it up, and it will gain

The determination to fly as far as it can.

The sunlight of endurance will shine upon it and give it

The strength to move forward.

The rains of failure will slow it down, but it only gains

The knowledge for its goal in this way.

In the end, sand is sand, and it will come to rest once again.

However, that sand will be in a happier place,

Knowing that it has reached its goal.

What must we do?

We must strive to find our inspirations

And make something of them.

We must set our goals and attempt the impossible.

We must endure through the pain, suffering, and torture.

We must not let our lives be nothing.