Failure

Numbered here among the expectant forties
The names rang like schoolboys’ chants
One, two, three…
My name was absent from the ten

My heart crashed against the rocks
For it could not stare my pride in the face

Stifled jaws, squared shoulders
My posture aligned to hide my shame and pain
But the sound of silence taunted and jeered
Its words echoing within the walls of my heart

Failure! Failure!! Failure!!!


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