Fool me once

May 3, 2019 by David Horton, posted in Bon mots, cancer, History, poetry, science

Ambition burned

white hot when

I was young, then

I lost it, discouraged,

then found it again,

then lost it,

then found it,

now, in old age,

thinking myself

safe, the old fraud

seems to have

appeared again.

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