Rejection

Wanting a thing
is irrelevant,
discipline
and hard work
are needed
when pursuing a goal
or aspiration
but desire
has nothing to do
with attaining,
and although all lives
are rich
with divergent paths
disappointment
is more natural
than triumph,
striving
more common
than succeeding,
but there is something
glorious
in the attempt-
in effort
and dream-reaching
even if they are not grasped
for the road
of happy destiny
is more rocky
than smooth,
faith and perseverance
more admirable
than opportunity or affluence.

Defeat is but a matter of perception,
worth not defined by societal conception.