Life Is No Single Shore

Life is not just one single shore, A long trek that shore to shore goes, Man learns from failure to failure. Each failure, what a bitter cure! Best endured, man as long last knows, Life is a quest from shore to shore. Should failures a success ensure, Let man learn to take highs with lows, More than success man learns from failure. For, each time failure knocks at door, The door pushed a bit tends to pose: Carp not, success’ no single shore. Slowly man knows from his deep core That success to long journeys owes, For, from failures does man learn more. A lady of a lifetime’s lure, Not to all who try success bows. No lesson of a single shore, Life’s lived from failure to failure. ____________________________________ Villanelle | 06.02.2007, revised March 2022 |