Love Poem: What Is Failure
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Written by: Barbara Peckham

What Is Failure

Do we ever ask ourselves
What is failure?
Is a child who cannot
Ride a bicycle when he is five
A failure, or are his attempts lessons,
And when he is seven
He will ride as well as anyone?
Many have suffered a broken heart
Or unrequited love,
But have still sought and found
Someone just as special later on.
Abraham Lincoln tried his hand
At many business ventures
That didn’t succeed,
But he persisted and went on
To become the president
Of the United States.
Our failures are lessons.
Either we learn from them or not.
Only those who look upon
Their lack of success as the end
Of the road and give up trying
Are the true losers in life.