Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (e)

Self-actualization

if you do survive to an age

that enables you to ponder concept of self

and go through the rite of passage

of a psychological breakdown

and existentialism.

Full potential?

it’s robbed from hands

before they know what they hold

it is poverty in the midst of plenty

lack in the center of want

chaos in the presence of inaction.

Many die unfulfilled

born dead, they die old

having never fulfilled

lacking the esteem needs

to accomplish

the pursuit of creation for its sake.