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Failure

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Failure.
It hounds me like a stranger.
One that always moves out of the way
Every time I turn around to see it.


It never leaves.
It starts out quite ugly
But gets more beautiful as I go along.
Its strength varies depending on my mood.


It is a very powerful enemy,
But it is not more powerful than me.
Not if I let it.
And I won't.


Failure will be following me until the day I die,
But it is up to me how big it will be.
I am the one that decides its power,
Whether it be strong or weak.
This is another poem I submitted as part of my Creative Process journal.

The lecturer we had that day talked about how as we go along we never succeed, we just learn to fail better and as we go along, our failures get more beautiful.

I decided to theme the poem after failure since that's what the lecture was about.

P.S. the lecturer was a poet just like me. :D
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Buvium's avatar

We don't have to fail in what life should really be measured by. It's the optional disciplines that make us fail if we give them too much importance.