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Excellence That's what we all want To be the alpha dogs To be the best The greatest And sometimes It feels essential Like we need perfection in our lives But the truth is Excellence isn't excellent at all Its the hardest road to travel on And the easiest way to become lost in life No lisence And the authority always after you No choice but to take the ride Look into the mirror Tell ourselves we are going to be perfect One day Each day try to better ourselves But realize we will never be good enough We can never be real and true Without being fake and plastic Without burning like moths in a flame We can strive to be excellent But we will never be excellent We will be something more Noone goes on a journey Just for the destination Noone reads for the assignment No we do this For the simple fact we love it Ambitious little beings And self-improvment Is as "excellent " as it gets
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Shyann Cooks

Im an amateur writer, avid reader, and a nyc high school junior. My main area of writing is "perspective writing ". If anyone wishes to know more my contact is via email @[email protected]

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