Contrary Contradictions.

If you haven't almost died.
You've never really lived.
If you've never cried.
You've never forgiven.

If you've never broken your heart.
You've never loved.
If you've never fallen apart,
Then your still up above.

Playing it safe.
Not really alive.
A puppet, a slave.
You just survive.

But if you never slipped.
You could never stand.
If you never stumbled.
You'd have never walked.
If you never failed to understand.
You'd have never stuttered,
Never talked.

So make your own mistakes.
Try the unknown stakes.
Play hard for the win.
Sacrifice the board for your king.

Challenge the records of fate.
The failures reward is faith.
Because as long as we can strive for what we have not seen.
We may be wrong but we're alive in our love and longing.

And when we leave this plane.
Even if the world forgets,
Our failures, faces, our names.
We face our maker with no regrets.