A pile of mistakes
was my timeline
perplexed and perpetuated ones, filling in every void
Every time an opportunity approached
I was rejected to take it up
Rejected I was, all along
yet I survived the tide
ups and downs never compelled me
to wash up the messes
I piled up all my failures
like a monument to my dismissals
to deck it up finally with a star
that was me, still shining brightly.
