A Lesson Learned

I am always one who lives by her word,

No matter how much people protest,

And when a failure has occurred,

I find it hard to believe, I tried my best. 

When certain duties must be seen to,

In the end, I feel I must be on hand,

While it may not have been left for me to do,

Work purposely left I can't understand. 

Some people see this as a mistake,

And perhaps for me, that is true,

But the lack of progress is a pill I can't take,

And thus I try no matter what to follow through

For years I held a symbol of a promise I was to keep,

And while some may have thought I did my best,

What I saw was that of defeat,

For as a friend I had failed that test.

Under that stigma, I still live today

Because to those mistakes, I can't comply

It took that symbol to hide away,

For me to understand the reasons why.

When agitated your mind displays a stormy hue,

Life can seem like a dark tunnel with no end in sight

But if you allow your mind to settle the answer will come to you,

So you must keep moving if you wish to see that light.