<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h3 id="my-prayer-to-failure" style="line-height: 1.11em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><font size="4" class="">My Prayer To Failure</font></span></h3><p class="">Unclasp the armour<br class="">on your heart.<br class="">You put it on as protection<br class="">from blows and blame.<br class=""><br class="">Forget your stories.<br class="">Look again and realise <br class="">that your work<br class="">– even if you meant it –<br class="">has come to nothing.<br class="">Maybe worse than nothing.<br class=""><br class="">You got close enough to injustice<br class="">to make promises to fix it,<br class="">but not close enough<br class="">to keep them.<br class="">Not close enough to heal<br class="">pain and broken lives. <br class=""><br class="">This is a prayer –<br class="">That failure will not take part of you forever.<br class="">That your voice does not become too harsh<br class="">or your heart too hard.<br class="">That amid a place of stone<br class="">something can grow again.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Peter Torres Fremlin</div></div></body></html>