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
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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