A Happy Fool.

Model your role

and watch the envy

roll around you

The idealist exists

if only in dreams

tragic but true.

For any idea

will meet its end

by the dawn of day.

Its the realist

thats really alive

if only biologically.

Dreamers imagine

golden gates and love

all fanciful illusions.

Pragmatists see

what lies before them

nothing but endlessness

And so they both fall

victim to a perfect world

that just isn't conceivable.

The happy fool is the winner

who hopes for golden gates

and finds them in iron bars.

Real enough to live content

Wild enough to live hungry

Indeed, a happy fool.