Poem: August 29, 2019

The Point Is

They say you can't blame a guy
for trying, but at some point,
you can because after a while,
if he's still trying, he's no longer
stubbornly reaching for his goal
so much as he's aware that if
he quits, he will have certainly
been a fool to those around him.
People will laugh at him at
cocktail parties and say, "Do you
remember when you failed?"
But if he persists, he thinks,
he may draw the gambler's lucky
break, and prove the future wrong,
succeed despite clear evidence
and lengthening odds, and his
efforts will reward him with a
smudged trophy, a worn sash,
the title of Not Fool, and we can
blame a guy for trying not to be
a fool instead of trying to be wise.