Ambition

He thought ambition to be noble.

He decided then and there he would roll up his sleeves

and that regardless of setbacks, he was in it for the long haul.

Until he a learned “It” was a holographic multiverse.

He could have kicked himself.

On  his long  grueling and what he thought to be

noble trek he had  abandoned his humanity

in pursuit of a mirage.

Derek Earl Houghton