Life's Not a Race

Majestic goals will in the mind arise

When in the realm of waking sleep you drift

And ponder failures past, are they but lies

When gazing forward, seeking spirits lift?

Forfend denial of the times you strove

Without success and had to start again.

Success is not the greatest treasure trove

For lessons beneficial to all men.

Oft times the triumphs that we seek are born

Of battles fought that we have lost within.

To stand up after falling breeds no scorn

For only in surrender lies the sin.

Life's not a race against the multitude

It's all you've overcome in solitude.