DESPERATION By ... Steve Lucky

               DESPERATION
            By ... Steve Lucky

Human beings usually cling tightly
To the smallest trace of hope
Even as the hope itself diminishes.
Dire situations bring out the best and worst in people
As they ignore oridinary warnings
For an all or nothing gamble
Bringing miraculous success or horrifying failure.
Panic sets in with the rational idea
No rational solution can be found.
Why do people strongly refuse to believe
Something they greatly desire is impossible?
More than once the so called impossible has been done.
Odds have no meaning when nothing is left to loose,
But people with supposedly nothing to loose
Have increased their own problems exponentially.
Great ideas and careless mistakes
Come from those people who refused to die
When common sense told them
Anything they did was pointless.
Innovation in abundance leads to a few successful outcomes
Rather than no successful outcomes at all.
Numbers and facts, however, are not the reason
They hold on to their desires in spite of it all.
Every ounce of will adds to the whole.
Quality and quantity can improve.
Perhaps failure itself will lead others to ... desperation.

Copyright 2004, Steve Lucky