Life's game

A Japanese Sedoka for the Rhythm & Rhyme Contest-3rd place winner.

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You can never count
on success till the end though
you may achieve earlier.

Often life traps in
a tricky situation,
causing a predicament.

Form: Sedoka
The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following
syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the
same subject from differing perspectives.

Katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.