Success and me

After years of toil, life had finally handed me success

After a string of failures, I had now found victory in excess

Losing my naïve charm, becoming a monster so evil

Killing my inner voice and acting against my own will

The taste of success had me hooked onto it

A carefree talent was now endangered to fall into a gory pit

I found myself sucked into a whirlwind of ego and fame

Every part of me had suddenly changed barring my own name

How could recognition change the true me, I pondered.

Searching for my soul lonely and lost I wandered

The blood red heart was now a gray pool of arrogance

Foes smiled while friends waited for the real me with patience

The mirror of life was hard to hide from in a while

I had to now decide my path in this inner war so senile

Moving away from the intoxication of success I found myself again

Getting back to the carefree me seemed full of joy and less pain

Promising myself to continue doing work full of hope and mirth

I buried the demons of success forever and vowed to never let it gain another birth!