Three Cheers for the Failure

One of my most personal pieces to date

Before I begin, I just want to say that this poem is the first personal piece I have written in quite a while.  In my short life, I've come to realize that the a person can only pursue something for so long, and endure so many of society's storms, before their drive runs dry.  This is what happened to me.  Because my efforts hardly ever yielded any fruit, I ended up becoming apathetic and unconfident about many things.   That has changed though, because now I determined to help as many people as I can before the day I die.  I don't know with 100% certainty what awaits after death, but I'm sure as heck going to make sure I help this world as much as I can before I'm no longer able to.  Sorry if this piece isn't my best, I know a lot of the words that are in this piece have been used in some of my other lyrics(this is something I always try to avoid), but I seem to have lost my way with words, and am struggling to find it again.

P.S:  There is a deeper meaning behind the line "Three cheers for the failure".  I'll let you decide what it is.

Three Cheers for the Failure

Riots rise down inside me as the tremors intensify

My passion was traumatized, leaving me a bard bastardized

By a world swallowed whole by the Orchestra of Discord

But I've found the empathy that I lost long ago

Televised, terrorized, cauterized, desensitized, re-energized

Now I'll carry the sunrise, unafraid and inspired

Across skies winterized for those that I cherish

Never again will I perish

Clockwork paralyzed in horror watches as weary warriors

Close their eyes forever, souls sickened by Black Widow venom

All around, hallowed halos slowly crumble to the ground

But an empty shell I am no more

Televised, terrorized, cauterized, desensitized, re-energized

Now I'll carry the sunrise, unafraid and inspired

Across skies winterized for those that I cherish

Never again will I perish

Into the incubus I dive, my heart burning with tranquil rage

For the harlequins and savages that incarcerated me in darkness

Now I am the rip-tide, I have freed myself from these chains

And now as I listen to the constellations, I'm no longer a broken man

Now I'll carry the sunrise, unafraid and inspired

Across skies winterized for those that I cherish

Never again will I perish

Televised, terrorized, cauterized, desensitized, re-energized

Three cheers for the failure!  Three cheers for the failure!

With a dilated mind, my hands held high into the sky

Three cheers for the failure!  Three cheers for the failure!

I laugh, smile and cry, for once more I feel so alive 

Author's Note

Writer's block still has me by the throat, so I apologize if this isn't up to my usual standards. You can't win them all, so oh well. Tell me what you think! :)

Reviews

[lydie]

This poem is very inspiring, and I still liked it very much, though you said you had Writer's Block, it didn't seem like it. You are a very good writer, and again it was inspiring very much, and creative, imaginative, all jumbled up. I think that the title "Three Cheers for the Failure" means that you always look to the positive side of things, and you try and make as many people as you can feel good, so when a "Failure" is feeling down, you give him/her three cheers, and helps the "Failure" feel good. Or it could just mean the name, you give a failure three sarcastic cheers, lol. But anyway, great writing piece. Hope you get through Writer's Block soon, even though I didn't notice it in this poem! Lydia

[DoormanDan]

Thanks for the review Lydie, I'm really glad that you found this to be good. Your view on the title is one way to look at it, but the meaning I had for it is that, first of all, we are all failures, simply because we are not perfect. There will always be something that we will fail at in our lives, but there will also be things we do right. So I think that we are all failures at the same time that we are all successful. I hope this writer's block is gone soon as well. Thanks for reviewing :)

[lydie]

You're welcome, and you're title's actual meaning is very interesting, and very true.

[Nyu]

I actually loved this one so much, even though you warned us of writers block you still seem your usual creative and successful self. Enjoyed this one, as I always have loved the ones that come from the writers themselves most. So many beautiful words. I'll keep the "Three Cheers for the Failure" in my mind but i really don't have a concrete idea though it brings up feelings. Awesome, meaningful poem I loved it so much! You are so inspiring

[DoormanDan]

Thank you so much for the awesome review! I've found that writing with writer's block can be a bit easier if you have an extremely high level of patience. This song started out as a completely different song that I attempted to write around two weeks ago, but decided to scrap. Almost every other day since then, I kept trying and trying to write something that met my standards, but just couldn't. This morning, I just decided to go personal and try my best, and this was the result. In the end, all I have to say is that writer's block is like mustard that's mixed in with my Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I'm glad you liked this :)

[Markius]

Wow, I am impressed, you claim to have writers block but you still proceed to write things like this... hehe keep up the good work and that is a noble goal, one I also hope to achieve(Helping others)

[DoormanDan]

I'm really glad you liked this. I probably spent a good hour and a half just trying to write this(which is maybe about forty minutes longer than I usually spend on a poem), and I was determined to be productive, so this was the result. The hardest thing about this piece this time was avoiding using a lot of words that I've used in quite a few of my previous pieces(I tell myself that I'm taking away from the originality of the piece if I use too many words that I've already used before), but I tried my best. Thanks for reviewing :)

[jeannemarie coulter]

love this:

Now I'll carry the sunrise, unafraid and inspired
Across skies winterized for those that I cherish
Never again will I perish
Televised, terrorized, cauterized, desensitized, re-energized

we should all proceed this free...

[DoormanDan]

Yes we should. The only way we can truly be happy is by being ourselves at our finest, and the only way to pull that off is by following our own guidelines. Thanks for reviewing :)