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Failure

Fallen from the highest peak

Crying angel without wings

Broken dreams inside a heart

Lost to hope and lost to pride

 

Unforgettable deception 

Piercing rage and endless shame

Evermore afraid to stand

For behind there lies the dark.

 

How can I believe in will? 

How must I remember faith? 

When by aiming for success,

I call upon me its painful shadow?

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I haven't given up... And I eventually got back up... Still, it's hard to shrug off the pain and the disillusion once you've failed... That's why I write this poem... Not to encourage failure but to understand it, to learn how to see beyond the pain and see what it can teach...

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©5 April 2014 - 1:28pm — willow
10 April 2014 - 1:06pm — SSmoothie
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what a wise thing to do for

what a wise thing to do for us to withstand pain first we must be accustomed to it, study it, feel it thus we can either recognise it and avoid it, wallow in it, or igore it! a choice is a wonderful thing!!! great piece! much ernjoyed! hugss

Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

11 April 2014 - 7:02am — willow
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Thank you for such wonderful

Thank you for such wonderful praise XD

Love your work!!!!!!!!!

Willow