It is no journey
If we do not learn to fail
But learn yes we must

Failure is always possible but so is success. 

failure of memory

Solitude and loneliness
Don't ever conflate the two

I do not speak
I choose not to

Your beauty is cliched
I want you anyhow

Pray for nothing
And God will always answer

On my knees I fall
Dig my hands into the sand

Present tense is evaporating
Past tense are the memories
We write into cannon

Everything is falling away
My hands can no longer grasp

There is no shame in failure,
only in failing to acknowledge
what has ceased to work. 

A failure

I poured cheap courage into my mouth
and felt it burn all esophageal corridors.

I was only there because I needed to use
their bathroom.

Two shots and a beer later it didn't matter
why I was there. It was daylight outside.

There were things to do, tasks to
accomplish, tasks to fail at.

Now, at home, I think of my failure,
and look to another morning

for an answer, for a better way to
what is coming next.