Why do we fail?- Poet CJ
Poet CJ 2003 (Birmingham, Alabama)
"Why do we fail?"- Poet CJ
We face trials and tribulations
The most enticing temptations
Not knowing the taste of victory
Makes you chase that taste vindictively
Pushing the envelope as far as it'll go
Watering your plants
Then watching them grow
Marking down the game plan
Yet I can't get it through my brain man
Why do we fail
Through the fight that's seen
To those that miss that eye
It can never be said that we didn't try
A strategy built by even the greatest tactician
Wouldn't be able to tell me how to bypass this mission
The desperation causes pain through the ripple
Yet this situation is nowhere near that simple
It as this point that we make a decision to succeed
Without the guidance of being taken under another's wing
About this poem
This poem asks the question of why do we fail. Even with the best preparation failure somehow catches us all. So why is it here. To teach humility, growth, fear? Read and see.
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Written on August 30, 2021
Submitted by cjcarrington30 on February 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X AA XB CXC DD BXEE FF BB XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2 |
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