NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 7 Poem: Failures are Teachers

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 7 Prompt: There are no failures, only lessons to be learnt.

 

I am using the following words of Barack Obama to begin my poem:

 

“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” – Barack Obama

 

Poem: Failures are Teachers

 

You can’t let your failures define you,

You have to let your failures teach you.

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There’s a tale of grit behind every scar,

Honouring the winner for the times he’d a fall.

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Let the obstacles on the path be your stepping stone,

Just as a river manoeuvres rocks on its path

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The tests of the game strengthen you for the win,

The way a child falls but doesn’t quit on learning to walk

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Your plan may work or not; your actions might go wrong,

What matters is your effort in devising a prudent plan

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Relationships may fall out; fate may have its plans,

But lessons of shattered alliances are foundation of eternal bond

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Do not count your failures or the obstacles on your path,

Count and remember the lessons you learnt at every fall

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You are neither defined by your failures nor your success chart,

But the lessons that helped you grow shall remain etched in your heart

 

©Vandana Bhasin

07.04.2025