There's always someone out there
With goals contradicting yours
A conflict in the making unless
You compromise, of course

You set out to love your best
And find yourself rebuffed
Now what then if they were "it"?
Is everyone else just cruft?

Your career glorious, goals in life
All laid out below you
One day all the bottoms fall out
Come up so fast they floor you

Now back to love, things get complex
Music stops - you're still standing -
You look around and realize this
Is what in the end you're handed

10/9/25