Temple of Careers is a poem and song that pictures corporate life as a glass temple where ambition is worship and family is treated as an obstacle. It comes from a Substack story about Amie, a rising employee pressured to put her career ahead of the children she hopes to have.
The Private Audience
The Temple of Careers, Choice Is Always Yours
The glass tower asks for everything.
Its floors are prayers we climb on knees.
The kind face names the obstacle:
the heart already held.
The card is blank and heavy;
a seam in the self,
a door the color of forgetting.
Below, the air is clean:
no lullabies, no small hands.
The clocks keep perfect time.
In the room marked Quiet,
women sit with tea and stillness,
having made a clear path
where a hope once whispered.
The tower hums,
counting its faithful,
one unencumbered soul at a time.
Read the full Temple of Careers article on Substack