The taste of failure

this one came to be as i was reflecting on my last year at school. desperately depressed and with failing grades, i decided to leave school at the end of 2008. this poem is a reflection of those events 


to fail


Im empty, my world is on fire.
 Burning ambition turns to ash. 
The scent of failure shrouds my broken dreams. 
My bright future now depraved of light, Im a shell of a man. 
Their faces mock me, their laughter haunts me. 
Every “I told you so” cuts like a knife. 
My hopes and dreams are bleeding out.
 im left to walk the shadows of a failed life.
 no longer will i reach for the stars