Despite Taking The Road Less Traveled Revised

[Being human]

This poem is for a small scholarship that I am trying to win. Have at it.
Despite Taking the Road Less Traveled

You strive to be the Number One,
Yet always end up last.
Glean behind the reapers, son,
And work for me till work is done
And first learn from the past. i think I'd be better if you drop the first And, repetition makes it sound lil dull. This stanza is very written


We take this past for naught;
We don't learn from it's mistakes.shouldn't it be its instead of that apostrophe ?
We strive to be their only thought,
Yet give up because we find we've wrought
A new path, but don't have what it takes.

Yes the past is secure,
And the future only blank
But we place hope in the unsure
And end up having to endure
The effects of our own witless prank. my instinct says me, pranks is a more suitable word instead of prank, but that'd kill the rhyme , try finding an alternative for it, else it's pretty fine, I like the thought put I the first two stanzas

Despite following the road less traveled
It quickly came to me:
That following a path not fully unraveled
Is still following,
And it's all the same to me.i think this is the only stanza which is a lil off, the idea seems good but not executed properly I reckon

The phrases in bold are my input for your poem. The start was really nice and I could see I heading very finely, somehow the last one mm idk somehow didn't gel in, good work otherwise , I enjoyed reading it, who doesn't likes poems with a message and this is my first feedback, sorry If I commit any mistake here, and I just gave you a feedback from a general non biases point of view, hope you get success in your endeavour, cheers