Heavy metal medal meddle

I don't need a medal to show off my worth
or to make me feel special or give me self worth
since speaking, I've found, since the vessel of birth
while walking around on this desolate earth,
my pen speaking words is all that I need.
Hand over the prize to the desperate pleas,
those bent over and begging on bare bloody knees,
to the desperate diseased, but not me, please.
Award and reward an intangible gift
for intangible words in a world still adrift
A prize in the eyes in a mad hatter's zen
In the end that's all that matters to them