live and learn...

 I was not delivered unto this world in defeat,

nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a

sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I

am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.
 
I will hear not those who weep and complain,

 for their disease is contagious. 

Let them join the sheep. 

The slaughterhouse of failure is not

 my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed.

I will win.