The Ways

"The Ways" Failure, my grey haired mentor Toil with me once more Send me into bowels of competition Content with loss, experience Leave me now, I will never learn again Build me up, a camel under burden Knock me down, a reluctant pugilist Prepare me for our assault on reality Fear resides inside me, successor Witness to frightening change Comforts of defeat are fleeting Status quo won't fool me again The journey, the pleasure, all gone Consumed in an avalanche of old A game of sport yields victors so sad champions go nowhere but down