Poem – ‘Try’

Swallowing pride,

Suppressing suggestions of surrendering,

To the doubts damning me from within.

An attempt to achieve,

Guised more as an attack on my ego,

Failure must be coupled with Cheshire cat’s grin. 

To try,

An action well-known to the brave.

Yet not even an acquaintance of I nor him. 

Trying to try,

Should be an accolade in itself,

With the focus on winning being second to this.