Anyone who tells those around them
'I would sell my soul for [insert ambition here]'
clearly has ambitions beyond all reason.
They may be the success
that they first set out to be,
and by some post hoc logic
will reckon the price they paid
and where what it got them
to be 'worth what it cost'
even when where it got them
was short of what it was meant to be
and the process can no more be undone
than it can be repeated
but there is room for doubt there.
Their wants could only be lived once,
and after their soul and sanity returns to them,
both slightly scarred, an ordinary life beckons
where their former ambitions will seem absurd
and well beyond retelling.
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