Failure is often inevitable
Failure is avoidable
Failure is a Trap
Defying a fall is commendable
Being cautious before you leap is advisable
Failure is a Pedestal
Whose aroma often turn our stomachs and us away
Love is Comforting
Love is not Guaranteed
Love is Belonging
Comfort is an adversary
You are guaranteed an ally - You
But there are places you will never belong
Even when you sacrifice what you dream of for them
Just because they love you
Just because they don't want you to fail
Does not mean that their assessments are best for you
They may know the result they want for you
They may decide how you should pursue the result
It doesn't mean their method will work
Even if it worked for them and for everyone else - Plans fail
We live in the walls of our fears
We are stifled by all we fear to lose
Our fears effortlessly kill our dreams
Their love protects us from their fears
Their love dictates the path we must take
Their love unwittingly stand in the way of our dreams
Our dreams find no expression in a love drenched by fears - ours and theirs.
Our battered dreams come up for air
Presented as nights of anxiety and panic attacks
For time is far spent and they have yet to be expressed
We fight to clean them of the fears - of failure and losing support and love
But no matter how we try, every whiff we take smell the fear
We try to get a version without the fear smell
But with every shaving, a little piece of the dream dies
You may never get the smell of fear completely off your dreams
But Fear is just a warning sign to tread cautiously
It is not evidence of failure
Take steps to actualize your dreams
And if you fail, remember that failure is a pedestal to success
Shake of the anxiety and panic attacks about time lost
Spend the rest of your time moving towards your dreams - and success
The Takeaway