FAILURE HURTS

It is certainly some nightmare

That wants you to be aware

That you surely need to stop and stare

The small things of life layer by layer.

It's like getting a terrible electric shock.

You know you have something but unable to rock.

It's arduous to tread the new path block by block

When you feel that everyone is there to mock.

It is a pus that bestows an unbearable pain.

Day by day it simply becomes hard to regain

The sanity that is required to peacefully sustain

In this worldly realm and to have less strain.

It is as if some vehicle rashly runs into you.

And you are dead before you think to do

Something so that your life may continue.

Alas! There is hardly anyone at your rescue.

It is as if you are suffering from deep burns within.

You constantly feel that you have committed some sin.

You surrender yourself to your traumatic chagrin.

Gradually, this becomes your so-called daily routine.

I know the above comparisons seem eerie.

But truly failures fall on us like a catastrophe.

It never matters whether we are free or busy

To accept these failures in life's journey.

People may say," Failures are stepping stones to success."

But they will be the first ones to laugh at your helplessness.

And if perchance some day you progress,

They will again blow their fife of "Failures ...to success".

But listening such quotes hardly matters

When the courage within deeply shatters

And our reputation simply gets in tatters.

Failure makes us forget our manners.

I am not here to preach some thought

About failures, seclusion or becoming rot.

We all have our own failure to think about

And our own ways to remove the failure blot.

And those who have been lucky enough

That they never faced any failure so rough.

For them, I say," Salute to you but don't rebuff

Those failures who have experienced so tough.

Who knows one day you may need their advice?

You never know when life may give a surprise.

You have your own brain to self-analyse.

It's just that failure hurts and not all failures are unwise."

---------------------------------------------------------©Radhika Gupta(August 23,2018)