DEFEATED

I cannot keep pace

With the jostling feet

The marauding haste

The trampling zest

Of the winning race

The cruel streak

The passionate chase

The smouldering blaze

Of the power freak

The tempting lure

The groping claws

The grabbing craze

Oozing hate

The cunning moves

The bluffing guise

The facade of love

The charming snides

The stab behind

The growing pain

Cloaked in vain

In dazzling smile

Of fake delight

Deceptive disdain

The lonely nights

The smothered cries

The shattered dreams

The battered heart

The abject plight

Gift of spite

Malice, insane

The macabre sport

The illegitimate gains

The legitimate hoax

The insatiable thirst

Of reaching first

Remaining atop

Immortal conquest

I cannot keep pace

With this endless quest

Of lost sunshine

And mediocre jest