Poem-A-Day: Day 199

Failing to Succeed

The failure in success
is that the successfully powerful
fail to fully comprehend
the absolute failure
that they’ve probably come from,
and there is no success in that.

The success in failure
is that those failures lead to power,
successfully comprehended
to the absolute successes
that they’ve finally turned around,
and there is no failure in that.

Failure and success
are the right and left hands
slapping each cheek in succession
equally distributing the pain
across the entire body,
and leaving the brain paralyzed.