Destruction by ambition.

If your senses are hungry,
You seek food, sex and comfort.
If your ego is hungry,
You seek name and position.
The drive of ambition,
Rather than the drive of senses
Put one to destruction
As did to Brutus and Mac Beth.
24.12.2003

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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