You thought failure was a locked door,
a slammed lid, sealed and impenetrable.
But listen, it is only a hinge,
a movement waiting for you to push.
Every wrong turn maps another route,
a folded blueprint you don’t yet understand.
The splinters you collect from falling
are not wounds—they are tools.
You cannot carve a masterpiece
with clean hands and untested resolve.
Every stumble leaves its fingerprints
on the architecture of your persistence.
Even the shards you step on glimmer,
sharp edges catch the light just right.
This is not the wreckage of wasted tries;
it is scaffolding for what comes next.
Progress is built layer by hesitant layer,
and failure is not a wall—it’s mortar.
Knotted wood, cracked brick, uneven stairs—
it’s through imperfection that you climb.