John Lentini

Defeat Equals Success

 

Thine fury in thou in me hath thy enshrined

Shareth I    your terror

                  your fury

                  your scorn

 

Ravage on mine mother

In thou hast I grown

Here thy hath depositeth

Here I standeth and admireth

 

Strain on so do I

Crash I to thy shore

For mine society me encumbereth

                            me boundeth

As the shore    you surroundeth

                        you halteth

 

Expresseth thine mine rage

      in your towering crests

      thine mount of apex

      your denouement upon thine confines

      so surgeth I

      so reacheth I

      so crasheth I

 

 

Yet behold I am not but one

And thee still cometh on

      in ever increasing numbers

            that striveth

            that embraceth

            that defeateth

Yet in all thine defeats

Defineth one great success

 

In success so shall we meeteth

      driven on by defeat

One day our defeats innumerable

      when outnumbering all

      shall spell the word success

And hence so doth each moment in life

      go never unnoticed

In the end we shall again unite