failure

When you’re at the brink of adulthood

You have to take the famous exams that would

Project your academic prowess

And deliberate your future success

And after weeks of waiting and waiting

The results you just end up hating

But you didn’t get the points expected

By the college you have just been rejected

Now you’re doing it all again

In a week it will begin

Fairytales brought up to date

Like the tortoise and hair you have to wait

Greatness needs to be worked for hard

Even when the teachers bombard

You with information that makes you tired

You need to knuckle down and be inspired

Notebook of the travelled thoughts

The papers that last year you fought

Within yourself the depths of darkness

There is just so much talent and smartness

Overcome with humiliation

From the past exams you failed in

Now you’re trying to repeat

You are down but you’re not beat.           

I believe that you can do it

Like the tortoise you can move through it

Last year you were like the hare

But now you’re more ready, more aware

Of how you’re repeating in another location

That you are not a natural sensation

Who doesn’t think he has to study

But fair play for trying it again buddy!