They say                                    
you’re a failure
Your friends are far ahead in life
What have you to show
for all the investments made in you?
You do well
in making excuses
For how your life turned out

Failure. It’s what they call you
But,
They forgot
As they always do
That a tree stump              
 grows new shoots
That a complicated plot      
makes a story
rich, interesting, memorable
They do not know
That your life was not designed to be ordinary
If they’ve run out of patience
While waiting for your breakthrough
You haven’t run out of hope
While training for a major comback