amazing how much pain and despair

will either crush you flat and fling you aside


or empower you to energize all focus and will

to rise up defiant of all consequence and forge a way forward--


few can stand to face their reckoning--

admit it was on them to do well and  so on them is their failure--


but how fewer are humble enough to acknowledge their strength

without preening and boasting and making more of themselves than they are?


excuse or explanation--neither will suffice--

result tells the tale--and if it match intent


then so much the better--but tell no one everything you know--

let each find what is best for themselves--


then the world itself will see whether all shame is yours

or all glory...



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