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Blueprint of Ruin

If sanity is the first thing to go,

then genius must be forged in madness.

If love is lost along the way,

then ambition must be written in solitude.

If heavy eyes bear the fruits of passion,

then insomniacs must be minting empires.

If comfort slows the climb,

then hunger must be the sharpest spur.

If vengeance is a motivator,

then most entrepreneurs must be arsonists.

If betrayal oils the gears of progress,

then empires must run on spilled blood.

If history is written by the victors,

then every textbook is a eulogy in disguise.

In the end, success isn’t a victory—

it’s the last man standing in a field of graves.

Ruins are not always left behind—they are built, step by step, by those who dare to rise in spite of everything.

Next poem: The Fire You Never Saw