Watered Down Ideals

What's missing, this week
     from your calendar of compromise?

It is lukewarm discussion
or was it watered down ideals?

Under fractured concentration
and sunburnt by attention,
Do you finally abandon the excuse of
                                 "best intentions?"

From a point
On a line
     (of sheepish half-admission)
Almost imagine you can see the whole figure
          Good show, Pythagorus--
Cut your losses.
Take your B-minus and run
    back into the familiar arms
    of your C-average effort.

As your excuses echo loud off every wall,
does it frighten you?--like a room
          empty of targets does the gunman?

Introspection on the rocks--
         an acquired taste, sure.
But, diluted too much, one surely
     Has to wonder, "why bother?".

Weakened past intention--
Or even recognition--
As you are.