Life Is No Single Shore
Life’s not lived on a single shore,
A long trek that shore-to-shore goes,
It learns and moves on from failure.
Each failure, what a bitter cure,
If endured, what a healing dose!
Life never is a single shore.
Should life a success spell for sure,
One must learn to take highs with lows,
Not success, life learns from failure,
That comes a knocking at closed door,
To push ajar that door of woes,
Life succeeds from no single shore.
A voice echoes deep from the core:
Life’s success to long journeys owes,
From failures life learns all the more.
A lady of a lifetime’s lure
Of fleeting highs and heavy lows,
No lesson of a single shore,
Life learns from failure to failure.
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Villanelle | 06.02.2007, revised March 2022 |
Note: Like all Villanelles, the first and third lines of the first stanza alternate here as refrains, maintaining the same message, but they are not repeated verbatim with the same words.
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