The Betrayed Idealist

I looked upon the world a while

And dreamed my place within it

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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.