Running from left to right

Staring into the ceiling

Counting invisible sheep

Is it the quest to shine and outshine?

Is it the race to defeat or to lift?

The desire to show off and put off

The stress to look good, not do good

The protest of boasters not boosters

The plan to get to the top so others drop

Shifting others to the lower spectrum

Locating the lime light rather than sourced

Seeking to be announced to weak audience

Showing up to impress esteem seekers

Projecting image of false change agents 

Yet you have not visited the change doctor

Lying awake in their closet of loneliness

They mask their emptiness with trendy apparel

Trampling on others with their ego

Spreading the news of their philanthropy

Blowing their own rhythm-less trumpets

They struggle to win a contest that has empty reward!

It all ends with emptiness and caught up in flash point.