Fail Into A Miracle...

The tiller turns the turgid soil

leaving the land in lines 

that erase the one between torture and toil

The skin will burn, blister, boil

The back is bent and brutally breaking

-all for a small reserved residual

Hoping to afford that final failure of 

an unlived ease and missing miracle

The facts all prove that we'll never truly succeed

Despite all efforts, intentions, or any noble deed

as there's no way, nor why, nor how

in any facts to which we'd bow

and nothing in the soil of science to serve the spiritual

-except the fact that some have failed into a miracle

The mathematician turns magician

with a winning ticket in his hand

He screams "EUREKA" 

from another dimensional position

-one between his dream & where he stands

He knew the odds were merely mythical

But his numbers let him fail into a miracle

See wise men frown at fools that mock with grinning faces

Watch 3-toed sloths out-run turtles and put rabbits through their paces

Witness cowards counting countless conquests

as the virtuous are denied their ever valorous requests

This gravity of a world so dizzying and spherical

can crush the light into something spinning and cynical

Burying all that fails to fall into a miracle