MY FAILURE HELPS ME KEEP GOING
My failure helps me keep going
Were it not for my failure
I might be content to retire
I might be happy
With what I have done
But as a failure
I go on trying
True it is hard to believe in myself
But then I never wholly have
And perhaps in trying further
I will add ‘additional humiliation’
But I go on anyway
Secretly hoping
I will do in my very last years
What I could not do all along
I of course do not really believe this
But I go on anyway
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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