Friday, December 04, 2020

Victory Is Easy - But Someone Has To Lose

Winning can be such a welcome bouquet.

Roses and lilacs should smell half as sweet.

Victory rides on the wings of the tides to leave

Sparkling pearls on the shore at our feet.

Counted so rare, the favor we savor

When triumph uplifts over summit and peak.

Hardly a thought of the depths of dilemma

Suffered by those trodden down in defeat.

 

Winning is easy. It bears not the burden

Of inward reflection, inspection or thought.

A wild and untethered complete celebration

Is what you expect from the battle you fought.

But out in the wings there awaits a new challenge.

Take care which opponent you knowingly choose,

For only the winner can claim victory's laurels.

Someone has to lose.

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