1971 Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri

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"Failure"

The man who always succeeds will find life a boring
Monotonous road with no detours to hide
The dull absence of fear and expectation.
His expectation is replaced by surety
And he leads a slow life.
On the other hand the man who fails
Will learn from his mistakes
Will feel better when he succeeds
Will have felt depression
Will be a better man

Failure is an awful thing
When you first have felt it.
But rewards a simple failure brings
To all people who have felt it.

Once they've failed, they know of loss
And when they win
It will be much more rewarding
Because they will have lost.

1971

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