Life Is No Single Shore
Life is not just one single shore,
A long trek that shore to shore goes,
One learns from failure to failure.
Each failure, what a bitter cure!
Something to be endured, one knows,
Life is a quest from shore to shore.
Should failures a success ensure
Let one learn to take highs with lows,
Not success, one learns from failure.
Every time failure stares at door,
Pushing it op more, tends to pose:
Wait, success is no single shore.
A voice is heard as if from core:
O success to long journeys owes,
From failures alone one learns more.
A lady of a lifetime’s lure
Of highs of success, failure’s lows,
Not a lesson of 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 refrain, maintaining the same message, but not repeated verbatim.
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