Feasting on failure

I don’t mind failing If it's only me graded If my son is off the table Failing my family Nothing can be worse Blame my weakness Curses have limits on high Depends on the vantage point Failure descends to feed Looking for a pearl in my meat Humans don’t eat their children Like the news say they do Hamster moms do it with ease Blindly gnoshing on tissue Yet we eat better selves every day Digest children of our thoughts We eat our children’s ego for lunch It’s hard to be a vegetarian Do no harm if you want to win When Slim Jims await at every aisle It's got corn syrup to make it sweet Failure tastes like meat byproducts No one gets their fill of Spam A diet of failures makes us strong Myself the tastiest of sashimi Wait for cannibalism to end Feast in the morn, starve on goods Eating a failure tastes sweet If not for the flush at the end I would eat endless pups The ring of fire warns The scarlet F grades me I’m no Prynne up to the grade I’d sell my Pearl if I’d be spared Just to feel success at a buffet But I’m as dim as Dimmesdale Cruel as a bound Chillingworth We’re feasts for failure Failure is as natural as sin If original sin is just food Then every day is Eucharist Rocket fuel aplenty to explode Failure a cold salty feast Nourishes despite its hunger If I let it ravage me Hunger eating hunger The feast forever replenished Failure a state of mind The scarlet letter A ticket at the buffet All oysters and no Pearl Don’t mind empty shells If my belly is full Failure, be my proctor My grade and food I'll master you yet I'll win you over Even if it kills me I’ll eat better Just to spite you