The Lesson in Failure

I have come to view failure
As an essential step
In the process of learning.
A single failure
Can potentially teach more
Than a hundred successes,
Yet most of us seem
Afraid to fail.
How else can we
Know the limits
Of what we can
And can’t do?
Many of us will
Try to avoid failure
At all costs,
But all too often
What that costs us
Is our ability to innovate.
It is through analyzing our failures,
And those of others,
That we gain insight
Into possible ways
Of making something work,
In fact there is probably
A lesson to be learned
In every failure.