Aspire (Villanelle)

To be who you are in the world today,
Is in truth, less than the top of a pin’s head.
A mere leaf of a tree; oh how cliché?

Consider marshmallows more valuable,
Than your lethargic presence from your bed-
To be who you are in the world today.

You might as well go trudge and haul dog sleighs-
You’re nothing more than a book unread,
A flea drowning in a large load of hay.

You’re but a speck of sand in the desert,
A star among space’s milky white bed.
To be who you are in the world today.

Nevertheless, if your legacy stays-
If you do a good deed to lead the misled,
To destroy the karma that tends to betray.

Saving one life is in a way portrayed,
As saving the world, a glass sphere on a thread.
To be who you are in the world today,
Has a value no man could ever repay.