I'm not flattered
by any winning
nor disheartened
by any losing

they are only incidentals
on the periphery of life's core-living:
what does matter to me
is that my life is lived in meaning

without which I'll but exist
in an existential vacuum--nothing
of worth would be found
and I'll be less than a human being-

time watches me ceaselessly
in all my endeavouring-
to every occasion I must rise
or end up in moral diminishing