Acme
Imagine that you have a goal
Into which you pour your soul
Until you’ve gone as far as you can go
Perhaps it was you set your mind
On learning all of Shakespeare’s lines
Or reading all of Edgar Allan Poe?
Or like me you waste your time
Putting down in silly rhymes
Definitions for ten thousand words
Hoping that one day they may
See more than the light of day
And hopefully by millions will be heard?
Perhaps you gave your fingers to
The practice most musicians do
And earned the skill of all Beethoven’s works
Or instead you’ve used your mind
To learn the theories of Einstein
To find out if you can how the world works?
Whatever is your noble aim
Once the thing has been attained
And you’ve reached the highest point or peak
And from there there’s nothing more
Or left there that you can explore
“I’ve reached the acme!” is the thing to shriek.
And if you are a person who
Embodies the things you can do
So brilliantly then you can also be
Regarded as the acme too
By virtue of that thing you do
Expressing it no less than perfectly.
Acme
Imagine that you have a goal
Into which you pour your soul
Until you’ve gone as far as you can go
Perhaps it was you set your mind
On learning all of Shakespeare’s lines
Or reading all of Edgar Allan Poe?
Or like me you waste your time
Putting down in silly rhymes
Definitions for ten thousand words
Hoping that one day they may
See more than the light of day
And hopefully by millions will be heard?
Perhaps you gave your fingers to
The practice most musicians do
And earned the skill of all Beethoven’s works
Or instead you’ve used your mind
To learn the theories of Einstein
To find out if you can how the world works?
Whatever is your noble aim
Once the thing has been attained
And you’ve reached the highest point or peak
And from there there’s nothing more
Or left there that you can explore
“I’ve reached the acme!” is the thing to shriek.
And if you are a person who
Embodies the things you can do
So brilliantly then you can also be
Regarded as the acme too
By virtue of that thing you do
Expressing it no less than perfectly.
Imagine that you have a goal
Into which you pour your soul
Until you’ve gone as far as you can go
Perhaps it was you set your mind
On learning all of Shakespeare’s lines
Or reading all of Edgar Allan Poe?
Or like me you waste your time
Putting down in silly rhymes
Definitions for ten thousand words
Hoping that one day they may
See more than the light of day
And hopefully by millions will be heard?
Perhaps you gave your fingers to
The practice most musicians do
And earned the skill of all Beethoven’s works
Or instead you’ve used your mind
To learn the theories of Einstein
To find out if you can how the world works?
Whatever is your noble aim
Once the thing has been attained
And you’ve reached the highest point or peak
And from there there’s nothing more
Or left there that you can explore
“I’ve reached the acme!” is the thing to shriek.
And if you are a person who
Embodies the things you can do
So brilliantly then you can also be
Regarded as the acme too
By virtue of that thing you do
Expressing it no less than perfectly.
By Kerin Gedge
Copyright 2014
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