Achieving Nothing

Why do people struggle
To achieve nothing?
Why does history never
Explain the lives of those
Who worked and worked
Yet amounted to nothing?
I speak not of those
Who lived their lives
And ultimately failed
Those greats, defeated
Forever defeated in battle.
History speaks of those.
No, I speak of the man
Who worked his hardest
At his 9-5 job
Of the student who studies
Late into the night
Why do not the history books
Speak of these?
Why do not the history books
Explain these?
But it is as in the Bible
“Life is meaningless
Like chasing the wind.”
So, I suppose…
It doesn’t really matter
If you achieve greatness
Or disappear into
The world’s obscurity.