Augmentation Of Authenticity

You can follow in someone's footsteps,
To lay claims you have basked in the Sun.
Surrounded by shadows from you not cast.
You can do that for as long as you wish.
However,
You will not be the one to fall asleep as fast.
Not when you are seeking,
To track the footsteps place by another.
With a declaration made of your discoveries.
With a placement in a light you neither earned,
Or deserve.
Augmentation of authenticity eventually reveals itself.
For each Bacon there is a Shakespeare near.
Wanting the glory and fame by theft if necessary.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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