Setbacks

The setbacks always teach me something. ~ Julie Trudeau

I could lambast myself for slips,
bewail my frailty, my transgressions.
And there's value in seeing them,
naming them, examining the circumstances,
what I'd been doing, saying, hearing,
feeling... not doing. And knowing,
I stand at a decision point.
I can learn from the failure, grow,
make amends, work the program.
Or, not choosing wisdom,
I can fall back into hopelessness,
despair, hell.