Ode On Failure Poem by Binu Mathew

Failure's not always your fault,
Could be denial of justice that halt,
You in tracks, or absence of fairness,
Hallmark of corrupt regime's callousness!

Failure's not always a sign of frailty,
Could be use of wrong yardstick or faulty,
System to assess your skills in full,
Length, to the advantage of the less skillful!

Failure's not always a step to success,
But perpetuation of inequities in excess!
Equality's vain promise of new leaders sworn in!
It only lies in the air we breathe in!

Failure's fallacy, in collective consciousness,
Of oppressed, live each day in darkness,
That repeats back and forth, like palindrome,
To cope with captivity, the Stockholm syndrome!

Failure's your fate set by the elite,
To make their hegemony complete,
Pushing underdogs, with castrated bravery,
Trapped in psychic trenches, into eternal slavery!