Wanting Not To Run Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

I am in it to compete and finish,
All tasks to pass and to succeed.
I've already won,
To abandon thoughts of winning.
Winning was done when I began to see,
Obstacles confronting me were tests.
And I had already begun,
Only to do my very best to do it done.

I am in it to compete and finish,
All tasks to pass and to succeed.
I've already won,
To abandon thoughts of winning.
Since the competition I knew I could end,
Was a feeling felt of defeating myself.
And one day I awakened wanting not to run,
Away from success but instead to let it catch me.

Wanting not to run has begun with a doing done.
No longer do I fear success.
Success I now let take steps to catch me.
To bring to me as much of it as I can get.
And regrets of feeling selfish about it have left.