When you have replaced the steps with an elevator
Creating a vertical freeway through concrete designs
Elevator algorithms ensure smooth passage to modern spaces
Modern efficiency to enable speedy passage to success
Apartments in skyscrapers standing in steely attention
Plush interiors and designed interiors look inviting and boring
Carpeted floorings do absorb the sentiments of distressed footsteps
Rushing through every square-foot of designer labyrinths
The elevated rush that runs through the body for mere moments
But the adrenaline rush is a decoy to entice many into modern life
Steps became an alternative in the rapid progress of life
It’s symbolism reduced to an escape route in times of emergency
Potential energy diverted to invade the vertical limits of humanity©
Wow! Wonderful thoughts on something as simple and common as an elevator, put so beautifully!
(The elevator seems innocent to me though 😉 )
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Thank you so much. 🙂
(I wrote this poetry in complete innocence) 😀
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LOL! Yeah I bet you were just a guy in a crowded elevator when you wrote this. 😉
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I prefer to take the steps/stairways and like to make my way up at my pace. 😀
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Ah! That makes more sense. 😀
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Ha ha… now you got it. In a rush to reach the top we miss out the details to lay a strong foundation. No wonder, success has become a mere word now. 🙂
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You are right about the strong foundation. But I guess success, these days, has become a lot easier to achieve. People’s declining definition of success is one main reason I think.
I do agree with you though.
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In the effort to make everything easy, we tend to compromise beyond our imagination. And anything built rapidly on a weak foundation is going to crumble. May be success has become a descent and in the sudden rush one tends to forget the consequences. I am not being cynical of success or who achieves it. I am sure there are people who still believes in achieving or have achieved success the correct way and I respect them always. They are true inspiration.
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Right. It all depends on how one defines one’s success. Whether that success lasts long enough, is definitely determined by ‘the foundation’ it was built on. 🙂
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Absolutely. Being self-aware and a wonderful human being who can bring happiness and hope to few people is successful. First, be a good human being with integrity and everything will follow if you enjoy the little successes along the way. 🙂 *you is a reference in general and not anyone in particular, used here for making a statement.
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I agree! And thank you for defining “success” and “you” so well!
(The former unquoted ‘you’ is a reference to you) 😀
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LOL… thank you (means you) so much. 😀
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Love it! 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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