Motivational Poems

Mistakes

God sent us here to make mistakes,

To strive, to fail, to rebegin,

To taste the tempting fruit of sin,

And find what bitter food it makes.

To miss the path, to go astray,

To wander blindly in the night.

But searching, praying for the light,

Until at last we find the way.

And looking back along the past,

We know we needed all the strain

Of fear and doubt and strife and pain

To make us value peace, at last.

Who fails finds the later triumph sweet.

Who stumbles once walks then with care

And knows the place to cry "Beware"

To other unaccumstomed feet.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes

We learn on errors troubled route

The truths we could not prize without

The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox