First Failure

When you work day and night

Vigorously relentlessly ambitiously

Determined to achieve that

One goal dream aspiration

And it shatters

When first failure knocks at your door

You feel 

Broken enough to believe 

That the earth slipped away from your feet

Depressed enough to call yourself

Hopeless useless helpless

Distraught enough to shake the soul within

Fool enough not to see strengths within

And then there's a war that begins

Between you with yourself

But failure isn't fatal my friend

Failure to change is

For failure is an opportunity

To reset rethink retry

In a new different way

A chance to improve

An experience to gain

It's an learning to cherish

Failure is that ignition

The thorny road 

That increases the speed of your footsteps....

What is left to see is

Whether you walk backwards or

Learn and move forwards?