{"id":3314,"date":"2025-03-26T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/dept-of-english\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:16:24","slug":"failure-to-success-a-poem-by-cathy-dora-rumnong-id-du2023mas0047-department-of-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.dbuniversity.ac.in\/dept-of-english\/failure-to-success-a-poem-by-cathy-dora-rumnong-id-du2023mas0047-department-of-english\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Failure to Success&#8221; A Poem by Cathy Dora Rumnong, ID-DU2023MAS0047, Department of English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m supreme, I made people happy! says success.<br>They owned their luxuries, they smiled under grandeur ceilings,<br>Pick-up travels to every possible corner of the world.<br>They want me, wait for me impatiently, seek my visit in their life.<br>It&#8217;s a pity for you, dear Failure<br>Who are you to them?<br>They want you the least,<br>They&#8217;re not wrong either, you bring pain anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Achievers like them had at least found me once or twice;<br>They will not touch zenith, without me teaching them, says Failure.<br>A man walks without fear of his future,<br>Live his present, neglecting his past.<br>Comes what may, he says best, that&#8217;s man!<br>Why does he need potholes to alarm him,<br>Obstacles to know his strength,<br>Adversity to check his endurance capacity.<br>If these aren\u2019t instructors to teach him, then who?<br>Aren&#8217;t they more than just life&#8217;s tools for training?<br>Is a man that ignorant, to need coaching?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Yet my importance in his path, is now to be known, says Failure,<br>If I\u2019d leave him to sail his boat without warnings,<br>I\u2019m certain he\u2019d die not just fail, just as I\u2019m certain of death.<br>The instant he steps on me (potholes) and falls,<br>He&#8217;s never standing up again.<br>It&#8217;s then when I stand erect to console and preach too,<br>Pain is gain;<br>Failure a stepping stone towards success, is what you should pay heed to.<br>Hear me oh you ignorant, arrogant one,<br>Failure to Success,<br>We need to walk hand in hand;<br>The world finds happiness through grief,<br>Love through disgust, much as victory through defeat,<br>A best friend through a stranger, everything through something,<br>They found you through me.<br>Do you hear me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m supreme, I made people happy! 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