All or Nothing

            No doubt the world’s most renowned rumour is success;

            Which one and all would be more than happy to access,

            Nevertheless many never do a deep enough thinking,

            To know that it very much takes all or nothing.

            Mayhap they have never come across a clear ensample of this,

            Which I luckily had a chance to know how it really is;

            For my own father was a vastly successful man,

           Who was all way always more than eager to learn.

            I would marvel every time to recited to me his life story;

            How much he had to suffer endlessly to earn the glory,

            He had me frowned to hear him talk of suffering;

            For our society today leaves that out in the tale of surviving.

            He had been to school too early in his life,

            And was not in it for the fun of it but was driven by hunger to thrive,

            A faithful bookworm he was, thus burnt he the midnight oil;

            Fully and unapologetically engaged in unending toil.

          “If there ever be any person who sacrifices big

            Determined that there’s not a single challenge impossible to beat”,

            My father would say often, ”Son such a one will doubtlessly succeed,

            Surely their hard-earned gain shall abound and exceed.”

            Thus it is lucid and limpid,

            That it is not as we may think it.

           “It definitely isn’t at all a smooth sail”,

            So say all that we see prevail.