Failures,
whispering shadows that stretch across the canvas of our days,
unwanted companions who sit heavy on our shoulders.

They arrive uninvited,
draped in the colors of broken dreams,
and linger in the silence of what-could-have-beens.

A dropped ball,
a missed chance,
a word left unsaid.
They sting, they burn, they echo—
yet they teach.

Each failure,
a crack in the armor,
a scar on the heart,
but also a map, ...