When you’ve had every chance and all resource in hand.

When you’ve been in good graces and known where you stand.

When you had God in Heaven reach down just to line it all up,

 

and you still found a way to fail. How could that be?

You look back in disbelief, regretfully

and feel like a failure, jinxed by a charm of bad luck.

 

Then you’re forced to ask yourself, “Should I go on?”

You wonder if maybe the timing was wrong,

that if you keep going, this time will it finally work out?

 

Cuz now there’s an omen that’s lurking behind,

waiting to take you down time after time.

It’s hard not to think that way, wondering what it’s all about.

 

But success in a very real sense is defined

as - starting things over again, one more time

than whatever the number of times it is that you’ve gone down.

 

Leave that omen behind in the re-view of life.

Drive off and keep going. Don’t even think twice.

For now, you know better in all things… this time around.