PROVE YOURSELF. Revised

PROVE YOURSELF. Revised
None is fondled in this field.
Just your works can commend you.
They can lift you up or throw
Your decayed name out of view.

Each looks for a valued goal,
which stays nil in others' eyes
till he can convince the crowds
that his tower will soon rise.

Neutral is the world around,
watching with its careless look,
clapping to those who can write
their initials in life's book.

Books of life open their hearts
only to those who can sign
their sublime names with a pen
gold in nature and divine.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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