Is It Failure or Successicide?

By Bill Stewart ©2008

When asked the opposite of success

Most folks will say, “Failure, I guess."

I do not think that really is true.

Successful people have often failed, too.

In fact, the successful have failed quite a bit.

Usually more often than those who have quit

A Failure may slow you, but it doesn’t mean stop;

You make it a gravestone or a step to the top.

When you fail, it is only a test of your mettle.

Do you keep on trying or decide to just settle?

When settling, you just accept where you are;

You give up, quit fighting, you never go far.

When you choose to settle - give up on the ride -

You’re making a choice called: “successicide.”

Successicide – a decision that means

You’ve turned off the lights on your own field of dreams.

Successicide is just walking away,

Instead of choosing to fight one more day.

Successicide – it’s your journey’s end;

But failure can truly become a good friend.

A teacher to help you to find a new way;

To keep moving steadily forward each day.

You cannot go back and start over again,

So start where you are toward a new end.

And when you have failed, get up and take heart.

Here’s your chance to rise up and make a new start.

When facing your failures, be brave, my dear friend,

From each of your failures you learn how to win.

If you have a dream you think may have died,

Just ask: Was it failure or “successicide”?