Failure to be erudite,
failure to be clear,
to be sane,
to be worth it.
Failure to be sublime,
to say the right thing,
to do the right thing, to
live.
We live with our failures
and die with them complete.
The great ones count their failures as stepping stones
or so they say.
These poems are failures
stepping carefully on the
stones,
falling in the
water and floating downstream
like leaves.
david michael jackson May 16, 2012 editors@artvilla.com