Sand

Sand

I hear some people hate it

It’s coarse

It’s rough

It gets everywhere

In between your toes,

And in your sheets

Gritty

Pervasive

I get it, but

I don’t mind it

A remnant of an adventure

Of a story perhaps untold

Even if it's a sad story

I’d rather see it unfold

Even if I should try

I could never despise

Something that brings to others

A possible sense of joy

No,

If there is a collection of letters

I am to despise

It is failure

And its dreadful deride

Even its cadence sings

A horrid minor key

“A lack of success”

Who decreed this?

I took a hundred classes

Passed a thousand tests

But the one I failed

Taught me more than the rest

So let’s stop painting failure

As a land of boiled bones

To be avoided and shunned

And embrace it as

The greatest teacher of all

Ohh,

And Paul

I almost forgot

Since you asked nicely,

I’ll offer up

without comment, mind,

That my favorite word

Is Snollygoster

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Written for Paul's "Most Favourite and Least Favourite Words Poetry Challenge"

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