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[sid] => 63518
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[aid] => mick
[title] => Teach Us How To Fail, So We Can Win
[time] => 2004-09-12 20:29:53
[hometext] => This poem is focused on peoples efforts to discover a way to overcome fear of failure. I would appreciate your feedback, and welcome your comments.
[bodytext] => Fear of failure is very powerful you see It can thwart our best attempts to be Someone special who was creative and proud But way to busy being afraid of the crowd Imagine being judged by all that we see Left alone and disappointed are we Tears well up inside us as we are so lonely Wishing to be more outgoing, less lowly Feeling the pressure rise within We suffer our fear we won't win How angry we become with ourselves Disappointment deep within us dwells Next time it will be different we say So from this failure we retreat today That fear just won't leave us be Fear of failure looms stronger then we It's easy to get fed up with this situation There is a need to do something out of desperation We challenge the logic of our perception Delete old tapes with their power of suggestion The futility of our fear becomes apparent you see With that awareness we begin to feel free Why should we be any less restrained Then the person sitting next to us is able to maintain The secret finally dawns on you and me That we are in charge of our transparency What we were willing to share Was something we could control right then and there Finally realizing that our sharing was finite To share a small part of us would be all right Our whole personhood was not at stake Just that in which we were willing to partake Now we can shed self-consciousness and fear All can fail and still have it be clear As a person we are ok within We can now risk to win [comments] => 6 [counter] => 172 [topic] => 61 [informant] => Willofree [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => selfstruggles )
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