The Slow Poison Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Ambition is a slow poison,
Not required for your existence.
To strive hard for an ambition
Is to kill all otherwise good time.
The fruit obtained may not justify
The labour and energy spent.
Desire of achieving so strong,
You may slip means and break the rule.
The mind set will get so hardened
You will not mind flouting the norms.
To try hard to become something
Is to accept you are on wrong foot.
Instead, fix goals while you move out
And find fulfilled when you cross them.
22.03.2018