Failure

Diana speaks to me

musings of breaths in the darkness of seas

as she swims across the Gulf's straight

Defeat awaits her and from the ruins of despair 

she surges victorious, poking through  unmet

expectations with such docile grace

Through the gates of fiction

 Ofelia comes to me, like an allegorical poem 

of Neruda: captivating and sincere

Graves mistakes she committed 

in her journey for redemption: unwise 

youth the marred bride of innocence

How hard it is at times to confront 

the unwalked steps of our journeys,

and to swallow the bitter consequences 

of our most innocent mistakes

Fold outwards! Gain new understanding!
The sisters of unyielding wisdom whisper 

to the attentive defeatist that there is a nobler
and macroscopic side to life's most difficult defats