The Betrayed Idealist

  I looked upon the world a while

  And dreamed my place within it

  Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

  Yet mind’s eye and ideals of worth

  Were betrayed by cold reality.

  A dreamer is a lonely thing

  Raised to forge a path its own

  Yet compromise shall take its toll

  Soon the dream will perish

  To see the good in others,

  No other pain so bittersweet.

  For beneath the weight of the world,

  Good is crushed ‘neath greed’s feet.

  But though the dreamer can die, will die

  May yet the dream live on.