IMPOSED MEDIOCRITY

Ideas offered to exhort change –
Their response and my assertions thus:

Theoretical versus practical,
Pontificate versus plead,

Being told to relent, & –
Get back to work, as

Effort of one, is layered upon
The same of another.

Plying more effort in shoveling
Sand piles from here to there.

All the while knowing bulldozers sit
Idling, and if used, would mitigate

Onerous, unrealistic expectations,
Punctuated by monotonous, moot exercise -

Without regard to the toll
On vitality and enthusiasm, while;

Antiquated methods and their masters
Sneering at fresh ideas, exemplify

Lack of resolve, or brains or motivation,
To forge an intelligent new path -

Notwithstanding a competitive environment
Beckoning for, and requiring change.

Grunt and grind versus available technology.
Prudence versus transparent arrogance.

Pence wise / pound foolish.
Yesterday versus tomorrow.

While today we toil in
Imposed mediocrity.