Don't Depress Development Poem by John Sensele

Don't put too much premium on bling
If in your life you aim to forge ahead
But to values and virtues do cling

Despite the pervasive pressure in your head
Which by dint of determination you ought to contain
Or else insanity and vanity leave you dead with dread

Unless salient strategy you entertain
In your bid to achieve the double dream
Begging and egging you to maintain and sustain

When in your thoughts, plans and actions you cream
Off crap and trap as your significant strategy evolves
Towards agile achievements in a solution stream

Teeming with an excellent effort that solves
Pesky problems and prevarications in conditions
That conflate fact and fiction as your life revolves

Around an attitude brushing aside fakes
Seeking to promote and proliferate mistaken missions
Sure to land you in ludicrous lakes where you crunch corny cakes
Exploring and expecting expeditions in futility to confirm sustained suspicions.