There Is Beauty In A Failure

-There Is Beauty In A Failure-
by Keaton Foster



What did I miss
She says to herself
How can this be
She whispers with ease
Upon an edge she stands
Razor thin is the divide
Between life and death
To herself
And no one else
She wonders if she is
Somehow lesser a being
The answer she seeks
May never come
She may never know
Why she has come here
To such a perilous place
In such a hapless state
There is beauty in a failure
And she above all else
Is oblivious to it
When she’s gone
After she leaps
Others will come
Asking their own why
How could this be
She had it all
Everything that
A person could wish
How could she step
From this very edge
They will wonder
And unlike her
An answer they will have
They will understand
And if they don’t
They’ll just make something up
What they can live with
A method to help them deal
There is beauty in a failure
They’ll see her death
As a poetic escape
A slip into an abyss
A place where pain
No longer holds any prominence
A place where all that hurts
Is replaced with nothing at all
Freedom from every idea
Escapism from every single fear
There is beauty in a failure
She didn’t know it
She could understand it
She brought herself to the edge
She contemplated her fate
And propositioned her faith
She twisted the hand of God
By asking for a measure of grace
As she stepped to her death
She wanted nothing of what remains
In her mind
She didn’t let herself down
In her heart
She didn’t see it as a mistake
She saw it only as a choice
One that she needed to make
And all else must find a way
To come to deal with…


There Is Beauty In A Failure
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2015.